It was designed by Montague Talbot Stanley, and is one eight remaining town halls from the twenty that were built prior to the formation of Greater Brisbane in 1925.

A tender from Messrs McArthur & Walker for £6,894 was accepted and the current mayor Alderman George Rees laid the foundation stone on 26 September 1919.

Extra walling and iron railing with a double gate along Racecourse Road was added to the plan and the building was completed in 1920 for a cost of £8,873.

[1] With rapid population increases, small local governments found it ever more difficult to fund and administer their responsibilities effectively and economically.

The development of services such as roads, transport, water supply and sewerage could only be efficiently managed by an overarching authority.

Though its use as a venue for functions and gatherings and as a local library, the building has long associations with the cultural and social life of the area.

Externally the building features English-bond face brickwork contrasted by a rendered base, string courses and entablature.

[1] The entrance to the library consists of a vestibule with Art Nouveau-styled leaded glass windows and tessellated/encaustic floor tiles.

The original open verandah to the north of the library has been unsympathetically enclosed with timber boarding and glass louvres.

[1] The hall, across the rear of the library, is much more intact and features a fibrous plaster ceiling with coffered timber beams.

[1] The supper room is a small single-storey timber-framed weatherboard-clad structure with a timber floor close to the ground, paired casement windows, and a gabled corrugated iron roof.

[1] The Mobile Library Service Annexe is a modern cavity brick concrete slab on ground structure with a tiled roof.