It was built in 1931–32, and is a two-story, five bay square, brick and concrete Georgian Revival style building.

The building features an elaborately-designed entry with a large broken pediment and a cartouche bearing a caduceus.

The building houses a library, dining room, auditorium, and offices.

It was designed specifically to house what once was a regionally significant collection of early medical manuscripts, art work, instruments and incunabula.

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