It is the oldest church building extant in Augusta and is claimed to be one of the oldest Black congregations in the U.S.[2] The 1801, Springfield Baptist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond County, Georgia in 1982, and the boundary of the National Register of Historic Places-listed site was increased in 1990.

The east and west sides of the church boast first and second-floor ranges of seven wooden 12/12 windows.

The interior of the church has an assembly-hall plan consisting of a shallow vestibule on the north end and a long narrow meeting hall.

[3] The Baptist church congregation predates the building and was founded in 1787,[2] by Reverend Jesse Peters.

[5] For this reason, the historian Walter Brooks suggested it was the oldest black Baptist congregation.