Breaking with ecclesiastical tradition, the Methodists used a Beaux-Arts Neoclassical design in purple-brown brick trimmed with pink rhyolite. The nearly square building is set on a raised basement faced in rhyolite blocks. The facade is symmetrical, with five single entrance doors on a deeply recessed porch between four brick columns with dressed stone bases.
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