[2] His offer was accepted by the community, which also promised to maintain the facility as a free library.

The Chicago architectural firm of Patton & Miller designed the Prairie School building, which was dedicated on October 22, 1909.

[1] The library is a two-story brick structure built on a foundation of Sioux Falls granite that is laid as random rubble.

Buttress piers at the corners curve upward from the limestone water table and fade into the wall surface at the second floor.

This article about a property in Monona County, Iowa on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.