This library, as the main branch, is located in downtown Ludington, in Mason County in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

The Pere Marquette Literary Club helped in the formation of a permanent city library.

They took financial support from Andrew Carnegie to construct the library building, which opened in 1906.

[1] The Pere Marquette Literary Club worked to obtain a grant from the Carnegie Institution for construction of the new Ludington library.

Modeled by sculptor W. Stanley Proctor, it pays tribute to a high school English teacher Sallie Peterson Ferguson.