The present Norwood Town Hall was opened in 1883, and received extensive additions in 1914.

[5][1] The council undertook a significant program of tree planting in its early years, and managed three municipal plantations.

[2] In 1985, it was responsible for an area of 3.92 square kilometres, with a population of approximately 9,500, having declined from a peak of 17,000 in the mid-1950s.

The council sponsored the Christmas Pageant and Mardi Gras each November, the second-largest in South Australia.

[2] The council had been deemed to be too small for economic survival as early as the 1970s, and on 1 November 1997 it amalgamated with the City of Payneham and the Town of St Peters to form the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters.