During the nineteenth century several small rural settlements dotted the landscape in Cornwall, Connecticut. In 1782, a group of strict Congregationalists seceded from the established Congregational church in town and constructed a second church in Cornwall Center. Following this, the town was divided into north and south parishes, with First Church built on the town center and the Second Church, this building, constructed in North Cornwall village in 1826. The North Congregational church is among the towns finest Federal style buildings in the region and features three entrances with fanlight transoms and the bays of the facade are broken up by two-story fluted pilasters.