It is located at 5 Turner Street in a small wood-frame building designed by John Calvin Stevens and built in 1901.

[1] The library is a single-storey wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, walls sheathed in wood shingles, and a granite foundation.

The doorway is flanked by sidelight windows with diamond panes, echoing a feature in the elliptical hood, which surmounts the door.

[2] John Davis Long (1838–1915), a Buckfield native, served as Governor of Massachusetts in the 1880s and as United States Secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley.

In 1900, he acted on an idea he had harbored for some time to provide his place of birth with a library, hiring the noted Portland architect John Calvin Stevens to design the building.