[2] The first library on the island of Kauaʻi was probably established by Reverend John Mortimer Lydgate in 1900 at his church in Līhuʻe.

[6] In October 1922 architect Hart Wood was selected to design the building named in honor of Wilcox.

Built with John Hansen as general contractor, it opened in 1924 to house the first public library on the island.

A granddaughter of businessman and politician William Hyde Rice, she had married Frederick Warren Wichman after the death of her first husband Holbrook M.

[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hawaii on May 31, 1979, as site 79000760.