The wooden church was designed by Thomas A. Tefft in the Carpenter Gothic style, and built in 1850.

South Ferry was a thriving textile village in the mid-nineteenth century, but by 1908 the Baptist congregation moved to a building 1 mile away.

In 1974 the University of Rhode Island received title to the property, and the building is currently maintained by a private non-profit, Friends of the South Ferry Church.

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