[1] During the Great Depression, The National Works Projects Administration approved a library and community building be built on land donated by the city and it was completed in 1937.

The Woman’s club worked to add to the catalog including acquiring 100 books from William Jennings Bryan Private library.

As advocacy for a new building grew, the library found its final home being dedicated on March 23, 1969 at University Drive and Segovia Street.

This arrangement continues today as Coral Gables residents receive many benefits from the larger system's resources and the library is open to all.

Groundbreaking began in 1968 for the 28,000 square-foot-structure built to replace the smaller former library structure on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, and the building was inaugurated in 1969.

[1] The building was built from native keystone, quarried in the Florida Keys, Honduran Mahogany doors, Spanish clay floor tiles, and wrought iron fixtures.

There is an impressive 15x9 foot glazed ceramic tile mural created by artist Katherine (Kay) Pancoast in 1970 in the Margaret M. Beaton Room inside the Coral Gables Branch Library.