[4] Waterloo architect John G. Ralston designed both buildings in the Neoclassical style.

It is part of a larger central mass that is oriented from front to back and sits across the lower hipped roof.

In 1977 voters in Waterloo approved a $3,650,000 bond referendum to renovate the city's 1938 post office and federal building to house the library.

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