Built in 1772, it is a well-preserved 18th-century church, which played an important role in the lives of the area's early German immigrants, and in the establishment of the town of Waldoboro.

[1] Waldoboro was settled by four shiploads of German immigrants between 1740 and 1753 and other settlers who came from earlier settlements on the Atlantic coast.

The floor plan is a common layout for church and meeting-house buildings of the period of an entrance at the opposite end from the pulpit, three aisles serving box pews and a large gallery with mostly box pews.

The oldest grave stone in the cemetery is for Fannie Miller, who died August 22, 1797.

American painter Andrew Wyeth utilized the interior of the Church for his 1974 painting, Maidenhair; which depicts a lone female figure sitting in a church pew donned with a crown of flowers on her head.