The Cutchogue-New Suffolk Free Library is housed in the former Independent Congregational Church of Cutchogue, constructed in 1862 after splitting with the Presbyterian Church across the road. By 1913, the churches reunited and the building was rented out as a library. Ever since, the library has occupied this early example of “adaptive reuse” of a historic structure, a concept decades ahead of its time. New England in character, it is a one and a half story Italianate gable roof building with Gothic-headed windows and doors. Since 1914 it has been used as a library. Today it houses the children’s portion of the library along with a Local History Center for Cutchogue and New Suffolk. The Local History Center is where most of the archives, documents and ephemera for the Cutchogue-New Suffolk Historical Council is housed.