[3] The Minot–Sleeper Library is located in the town center of Bristol, on the south side of Pleasant Street west of Central Square.

It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of red brick, with a gabled slate roof and granite trim.

Stylistically it has a mix of Late Victorian elements, with Gothic-arched windows and roof gables with Stick style woodwork.

In 1883, Judge Josiah Minot and Colonel Solomon Sleeper, both natives of Bristol, offered the town the land and funding for a building, as well as further support for the acquisition of a collection.

This offer was accepted by the town, and this building was completed in 1885, designed and built by a local contractor, Ebenezer Hutchinson.