The original building, designed by the architect Charles Heath and built by Cockram & Cooper, consisted of a white dome and two wings (each with a hall).
The Coburg Town Hall had the first installed, Australian-designed and constructed film projection unit (Raycophone) in 1930.
Campbell read letters from the Premier and Prime Minister Scullin who wrote: "If similar steps were taken extensively the present depression would be vastly relieved".
It is also reported that the dome at the front of the theatre used to show a neon sign saying "Talkies" until the late 1940s.
On the corner of Elm and Urquhart Street is the "Coburg City Band and Truby King Rooms".