[2]: 295  The founding preacher, Elder Matthew Garner, remained active in the area; he formally organized Pisgah in 1829,[3] and he participated in the establishment of another Church of Christ in the nearby village of Ripley in the 1840s.

[2]: 353 Pisgah is a brick building with a foundation of limestone, a tin roof, and additional elements of wood and stone.

[4] The overall structure is typical of vernacular buildings of the period, including the slight influence of adapted Greek Revival elements such as the pediment.

[1] Despite the passage of more than a century and a half, it has experienced almost no changes; no other nineteenth-century church in Brown County retains a comparable degree of integrity.

Modernizations such as the installation of plumbing and electricity have never been performed at Pisgah, and the immediate environment remains in use as a quiet rural farming area.