The library was built in 1903 through a $25,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation.

[2] Architect Joseph Schwartz designed the building, a Romanesque Revival structure with Neoclassical influences.

While the building's massive form and rough-hewn stone exterior are Romanesque, it features a Greek pediment above the entrance supported by four pilasters on either side of the doorway.

In 1973, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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