[9] The girlfriend, fiancée or parent of each soldier who enlisted from Amphitheatre to fight in the Great War planted a tree in their honour.

[11][12] The original parts of the hotel are of timber construction, clad in weatherboards with Morewood and Rogers metal roof tiles.

[16] Throughout the 1860s and 1870s, the hotel supported local administration by hosting coronial inquests,[17] land auctions,[18] mining board elections,[19] and recreation club meetings.

[24] It is now a private residence and retains many of its gold rush era features, including the bar cut from a slab of Australian red cedar (Toona ciliata).

[26] The hall contained a library and provided a larger space for public meetings and community events than the Amphitheatre Hotel.

It doubled as the town's cinema during the 1920 and 1930s and has hosted dances, private functions and public entertainments by local and visiting artists.

The returned Amphitheatre soldiers of the Great War erected a granite arch 'to the memory of fallen comrades' during the 1920s.

The local community added two brass plaques to the memorial on 28 October 2002 listing the names of all who served from the town in both World Wars.

This much-photographed trio no longer serves petrol and is a reminder of the days when cars had shorter range and roads conditions were tougher on them.

The house began as the cottage of store keepers Henry and Eliza Spiers in 1860, and they extended it substantially in 1876, adding a second storey.