Built in 1879 to a design by the regionally prominent architect C. Willis Damon, it is a fine local example of Stick/Eastlake architecture.

The former First Universalist Church building is located in the town center of Kingston, on the east side of its expansive common at the southwest corner of Main Street and Cemetery Lane.

It is a rectangular wood-frame structure, with a gable roof and a four-stage square tower projecting out of its northwest corner.

To the right of the tower is a single-story porch, its shed roof supported by large wooden brackets.

Damon was considered one of that city's leading architects, having designed a number of its industrial buildings and the old Haverhill High School.