It and a small one-room schoolhouse nearby are the few remaining buildings from the former hamlet of Doanesburgh, once the commercial center of eastern Putnam County.

It features wainscoting beneath the chair rail as well as paneling on the gallery parapet, and painted and grained pews.

In 1761, a small frame meeting house was built to strict standards for such buildings, measuring 50 by 38 feet (15 by 12 m) with the entrance south of the pulpit.

[1] At the time it was built, the church was in the middle of the hamlet of Doanesburgh,[3] then the commercial center of eastern Putnam County.

It chose a route that bypassed Doanesburgh for the Great Swamp, passing through Brewster, currently still in use as far north as Wassaic by Metro-North's Harlem Line.