It was built in 1913–1914, and is a one-story over raised basement, rectangular red brick Classical Revival style building.

It has a gently pitched standing seam metal roof and a brick parapet.

It is one of 14 public libraries built in South Carolina between 1903 and 1916 with funding from Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie Foundation, and was Gaffney's first public library.

Today, the Cherokee County Public Library System operates a branch in Gaffney at 300 East Rutledge Avenue.

This article about a property in Cherokee County, South Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.