The building was constructed in 1923 to house the city's library, which had previously been based in a Methodist church and the Old Fennimore House.

Dwight T. Parker, a local banker, funded the library.

The architectural firm Claude & Starck designed the structure in a mixture of the Mediterranean Revival and neoclassical styles; the brick building features terra cotta ornamentation and a tile roof.

[2] The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 10, 1983.

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