It is located at 6 Carver Street in downtown Vinalhaven, in a small architecturally distinguished Prairie School building built in 1906 with financial support from Andrew Carnegie.

The main entrance is in the center of the facade facing Carver Street, recessed under a round arch in a projecting section topped by a flat parapet.

A high stringcourse runs beneath a narrow band of square windows on either side of the entrance.

The interior has a central librarian's desk with flanking reading rooms, and original wooden shelving on the walls.

A private circulating library was added to this early collection in 1890, and was established in Vinalhaven's Memorial Hall in 1895.