[1] The branch offers the Multnomah County Library catalog of two million books, periodicals and other materials.

[2] It replaced a 1913 Tudor style building at 410 N. Main Street, which had been a Carnegie library.

[3] The new building was paid for by a $2.1 million fund-raising campaign designed in part by then-Governor Neil Goldschmidt, including $1.7 million serial levy approved by Multnomah County voters in 1987 and a projected $200,000 from the sale of the original building.

[2][4] Following the levy, three attempts to buy suitable property that could be developed within the $1.7 million approved had failed by mid-1988, leading to the consideration of several more expensive options.

[4] The original library building was purchased by the Gresham Historical Society, which turned it into a museum as well as housing its main headquarters there.