The original building, a 1950's grocery store serving as a makeshift library for the university, was transformed with an exterior designed to reflect the vernacular architecture of La Verne, California.
The second and fourth levels of the new self-supporting stack tower added to house the library collection form carrel-lined mezzanines over the first and second floors of the library; all library furniture is custom designed.
The new classroom/faculty office/art gallery wing reorients the old building toward the central campus quadrangle.