The branch was one of 65 built by the New York Public Library with funds provided by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, 11 of them designed by McKim, Mead & White.

It is a three-story-high, five-bay-wide building faced in deeply rusticated gray limestone in an Italian Renaissance style.

The building features round arched openings on the first floor and bronze lamps and grilles.

[2] It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1970 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

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