It is a wood-frame structure, built in 1853–54, and is the oldest extant Italianate church in Belknap County, with a little-altered exterior.

It is a wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, flushboarded front facade, and clapboarded sides and rear.

[2] The church was built in 1853-54 for a Free Will Baptist congregation organized in Alton in 1831.

In 1838 this congregation joined with local Congregationalists to build a union church for use by both groups.

In 1853 the Congregationalists decided to build their own church, and the Free Will Baptists soon followed suit.