Following significant population growth, largely associated with the local whisky industry, the area became a police burgh in 1863.

[3] The new building was designed by Robert Baillie Pratt of Elgin in the neoclassical style, built in rubble masonry and was completed in 1900.

[6] In August 1900, the proprietor of the Seafield Estates, Caroline Stuart, Countess of Seafield, opened a bazaar intended to repay the debt of £800 incurred by the company that had commissioned the town hall; she also used the occasion to give a significant additional donation for the poor of the parish.

[7] On 16 May 1901, Major Grant used the town hall as a venue to present medals to local service personnel who had served in the Second Boer War.

[15] Subsequent users of the building included 423 (Speyside) Detached Flight Squadron, Air Training Corps.