Reed Memorial Library is located at the junction of US 6 and NY 52 in Carmel, New York, United States.

The library occupies a corner lot; it takes the form of a one-story trapezoid faced in rock quarried around nearby Lake Gilead.

The main entrance has double doors flanked by narrow windows in a rusticated surround with quoined corners.

[1] The New York firm of Pryor & Gaylor was commissioned to design a building that could not only serve as a library but a community meeting place.

While there are some Gothic Revival touches on the interior like the mantel in the children's reading room, the bulk of the interior shows the strong influence of the related, contemporary Arts and Crafts style, which was upholding simpler Tudorbethan buildings as an alternative to the architectural flourishes and ornament of the later Victorian era.