[5] Mountain guides Alec and Peter Graham lobbied the Ministry of Tourist and Health Resorts regarding the need for the hut,[4] and in the Public Works estimates tabled in Parliament in October 1929, £400 was allocated to the project.

[6] Plans were drawn up and tenders for the supply of materials to build the hut were called for the following month.

[7] In the Public Works estimates presented to Parliament in October 1930, £350 was voted to the construction of Chancellor Hut, with only £170 having been spent in the previous year.

It originally had separate rooms for men and women, but these were combined after social attitudes of mixing genders shifted.

That same year, the front of the hut was repiled, exterior doors and windows were replaced, along with some of the timber.