It is on a small rise about 75 feet (23 m) from the road, sheltered by mature trees around a paved driveway and parking lot.

All the buildings on the property, except the Christian Education Center and the cemetery, are considered contributing resources to the National Register listing.

[1] The one-story church building is faced in brick laid in English bond on a stone foundation with steeply pitched gambrel roof with boxed cornice and long lower slopes flared at the bottom.

The main block is 70 by 96 feet (21 by 29 m) with a two-stage, four-story centrally located tower on the south (front) elevation.

[1] On the south facade, the tower is joined to the main block by a three-bay pedimented gabled projecting front section.

[1] The east and west elevations have three tall rounded-arch windows apiece south of the transept wings, flanked by louvered wood blinds.

The wooden Gothic Revival case for the church's original pipe organ is along the loft's south wall.

It is a two-story brick building in the Colonial Revival style with a gabled roof and a small entrance wing on its southwest.

It is a three-bay, two-story frame house sided in vinyl with a pedimented front gable and single-bay entrance porch on the northern bay with square piers.

The only other contributing outbuilding is a small stone shed in the middle of the cemetery, 50 feet (15 m) north of the church.

It is laid out in a grid pattern, with narrow grassy unpaved roads offering access should a vehicle be needed.

Over the next century of its existence, it developed that building from a simple brick church into the complex structure it is today.

[1] Palatine German settlers in the region, who were also Protestants in the Reform tradition, began to swell the congregation's ranks.

It consisted only of the southernmost 30 feet (10 m) of the present structure without the projecting front pedimented gable or tower.

Later, it became known as Claverack College, educating Martin van Buren, Stephen Crane and Margaret Sanger before closing in 1902, by which time it was known as Hudson River Institute.

[1] The year after the college was founded, the first change was made to the church when doors were put on the pews to help retain warmth from the foot stoves worshippers brought in the winter months.

Expansions over the next decade added the present north section and wings onto the old church, with exits to the cemetery at the rear.

[1] Mid-20th century actions start with the installation in 1930 of electric lights, designed to look like older oil lamps with glass chimneys.

[1] The church's beliefs conform to the Apostles' Creed: "We believe in the trinity – God the Father, his Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.

"[2] It has roughly 200 members,[1] and is part of the Columbia-Greene Synod of the Reformed Church in America's Albany Classis.

[3] In addition to Sunday services and school, it offers Bible study for adults, confirmation classes, and a youth group.

[4] It also hosts local meetings of community groups, such as the Boy and Girl Scouts, as well as Alcoholics Anonymous.

[5] The church supports several prominent regional charities, including Habitat for Humanity, the Salvation Army and the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York.