Built as village offices for College Hill when it was a separate community, the building was designed by Samuel Hannaford, and it has been named a historic site.

[2] The architect was Samuel Hannaford, who had become famous a decade earlier as the designer of the grand Cincinnati Music Hall near downtown.

In 1886, Hannaford was ending a period of sole proprietorship; just one year after the College Hill Town Hall was built, he began a partnership with two of his sons.

A wide staircase permits entry through a large archway in the facade, which sits next to a four-story tower,[4] within which a Belfry is placed.

The building has an irregular plan, due partly to multiple locations at which elements of brick project from the walls.