It is a single-story wood-frame structure in a U shape, covered in siding, with a cross-gable roof.

Built c. 1940, it is the only surviving element of the Immanuel Industrial Institute, a larger complex of buildings built to educate the local African-American population.

The complex was merged into a regional school district in 1950, and was closed in 1966.

It was used for a variety of other private and non-profit educational purposes afterward, but has been vacant since the mid-1990s.

[2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.