[1] In 1875, they purchased a plot of land on the corner of Roxboro Road and Main Street and constructed a small frame church building.

[1] The industrialist George Washington Watts was a member of the church and funded missionary trips to Cuba, Brazil, Korea, and Africa.

[2] In 1890, helped fund a new brick Gothic Revival church building with a seventy-foot tower.

[1][2] In 1916, the church hired the architects Milburn and Heister, who built the Carolina Theatre, to design a new Gothic Revival building.

[1] The church partnered with Trinity Methodist, First Baptist, and St. Philip's Episcopal to create Congregations in Action, an organization that provided assistance to residents of Oldham Towers and the Liberty Street Apartments.