The Adriance Memorial Library is located on Market Street in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.

The area is extensively developed and urban, along the point where the terrain levels off after rising a half-mile (800 m) from the Hudson River to the west.

To the southwest, across the fork of Market, is the Harlow Row, a group of attached brick rowhouses slightly older than the library.

A stone retaining wall, topped by a small decorative guardrail, runs along the street, broken by a set of steps in the center flanked by gas lampposts.

The building itself is a one-story, 13-bay structure of Tennessee marble with a parapeted roof, projecting cornice with modillions, plain frieze with "Adriance Memorial Library" carved into it.

Within that section the middle three project slightly to form a central pavilion with four round fluted Corinthian columns.

They have similar decorative treatment as the central bays, but are set with one-over-one double-hung sash above a recessed panel.

A parged brick hyphen, two stories with two bays set with one-over-one double-hung sash between limestone sills and lintels, trimmed with a molded wooden cornice, connects the main block to a rear addition built of smooth dressed stone blocks, rusticated on the first story.

Similar windows alternate on the addition's main block, and rise near the east corner of the rear section.

John and Mary Adriance's six children donated $100,000 from the fortune he made developing the buckeye plow to build the library, and purchase its books, in their parents' memory.