It served as Akron's public library from 1904 to 1942, and as an art museum from 1922 to 1932 before being converted to office space.

[3] It is a monumental one-story block building, faced with "smooth-dressed coursed ashlar of Ohio buff sandstone.

Elements of Beaux Arts style are its colossal columns, its detailed entablature, and parapet.

Elements of French Renaissance sub-style are its mansard roof, the projecting front pavilion, and the "grotesque mask above the entry".

This article about a property in Summit County, Ohio on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.