Local businessman Eugene Ellsworth donated the property for the library in 1902.

The single-story, brick structure is dominated by an elaborate entrance pavilion.

[3] It features a semi-circular window above the cornice, which is supported by two Ionic pillars in antis between rusticated corner piers.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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