The Schultz-Holmes Memorial Library was designed by Lansing, Michigan, architect, Clark R. Ackley, and constructed in 1955-56 by general contractor, Fred W. Entenmann of Toledo, Ohio. The building was dedicated on August 12, 1956.
Blissfield had enjoyed a public library since 1935, first as a branch of the county library before becoming a village library on March 12, 1936. The library moved around, sometimes sharing buildings, first with the high school and finally with the village offices in an old bank building, before moving into the present building. The building was constructed for the library with the proceeds from the Estate of Fred and Martha Schultz, whose only daughter, Erma Schultz Holmes and her family, husband, Harold, and son, Fritz, died tragically in a boating accident in Lake Superior while vacationing in Isle Royale State Park in 1947.
