The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

After Fred and William Close of England opened a land sales office in LeMars in 1879, they began to plan an English colony.

[2] Men from England were sent to the Le Mars area to study farming in the late 19th century.

[3] Some were the sons of established upper-class English families who returned home after they learned farm management techniques.

[4] The church building is built over a limestone foundation, and utilizes a unique board and batten border just below the horizontal clapboard.

It was originally capped by a small spire, but it was removed around the turn of the 20th-century and the roof gable was extended to cover the tower.