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W. Marbury Somervell and Harlan Thomas designed the Columbia Branch for the Seattle Public Library. Daniel B. Trefethen, President of the Seattle Public Library Board, stated in the Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Seattle Public Library (1914) about the planning of the new library: "Plans for the new building for the Columbia branch, delayed by the uncertainties of the street grade, were completed late in the year by the architects, W. Marbury Somervell and Harlan Thomas, and the contracts let. This building will be of the one-room type and will be somewhat smaller than the other branches. The money for its erection comes from the Carnegie fund." (See Daniel B. Trefethen, Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Seattle Public Library, 1914, [Seattle: Dearborn Printing Company, 1914], p. 6.) The Columbia Branch of the Seattle Public Library opened in 12/1915.

The Columbia City Branch of the Seattle Public Library occupied a 0.49 acre site in 2010.

This branch of the Seattle Public Library was renovated in 2004 at a cost of $3 million;