The building stopped being used as a town hall sometime around 1955 until it was reopened as "Edinburgh Square Heritage and Cultural Centre" in the spring of 1988.

The Edinburgh Square Heritage and Cultural Centre also houses the Gillespie Clark Reference Library, filled with books, files and documents relating to Caledonia's intimate history and the genealogy of its residents.

In addition, the library holds a collection of the Grand River Sachem dating back to 1856.

They completed all this work for £1,275 and the council's first meeting in the newly construct town hall was January 18, 1858.

The basement was originally a lock-up house and a meat market with an entrance beneath the front steps of the building.

He was also traffic director and had an office on the corner of Argyle and Caithness Streets, provided to him by a local merchant, which he used to keep a lookout on the town.