Designed by architect William C. Jones of Chicago in the Palladian style, it was built between 1914-1915.

Its superimposed front portico is supported by six 2 story columns with egg-and-dart capitals.

The inner dome consists of some 8,000 colored fish scale glass panes on a wooden support structure.

Due to the difficulty in traveling to Davenport, the Rock Island members of the Davenport church in 1895 began holding Friday night testimony meetings in rented halls in Rock Island, first at the Industrial Home Building at 3rd Avenue and 21st Street and then at the Swedish Baptist Church at 5th Avenue and 21st Street.

In April 1896 they were held frequently [8] on 23rd Street south of 8th Avenue and began construction of their own building which would seat 700 people.