It is located in the center of town at 111 South Barnstead Road, in a single-story Colonial Revival building (listed on the National Register of Historic Places) designed by the William M. Butterfield Company of Manchester and built in 1916-17.

It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of brick with trim of wood and stone, and is covered by a hip roof with copper finials at the peak.

The windows on either side of the entry are topped by splayed stone lintels with keystones, and have upper sashes divided into triangular panes.

It was designed by William M. Butterfield, an architect based in Manchester, and is one of the finest examples of Classical Revival architecture in the New Hampshire Lakes Region.

In 1979 the town offices moved out, and the space was adapted as a children's reading room, with woodwork and shelving carefully matched to the existing finishes.