Architect Homer W. Glidden designed the library in the Classical Revival style.

The library's design features a projecting central entrance with a plain frieze supported by two columns and brick pilasters, a stucco parapet extending around most of the building, and a cornice set above dentils.

[2] The City of Upland still owns the building and rents it to the public for community events.

[3] The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1990.

This article about a property in San Bernardino County, California on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.