It is located on Main Street, in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood.

The building was designed by architect Archibald Campbell Hope to serve as a post office.

In the 1970s the building was briefly occupied by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, before being transformed into a community arts venue in the following decade.

The Hall stills keeps this function today, besides being used as a venue for weddings and other events.

The building served as a shooting location for The X-Files season 3 episode Grotesque after a catholic hospital that served as a stand-in for the George Washington University library declined to have a gargoyle mounted on the roof for a shot.