The Richardsonian Romanesque structure was designed by architect Henry Van Brunt and built with funds bequeathed by William B. Spooner, a Massachusetts leather merchant who had a family connection to the university.

As originally built, the building housed a reading room on the ground floor and meeting space on the upper level, with book stacks in a five-story section.

[3] Red Dakota sandstone accents the quoins, columns, beltlines and sills.

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