The original portion of the complex was built in 1878 and was the oldest public school building in Wyoming.

Plans were immediately put into place to adapt the building as a community center, which opened in 1982.

[4] The original Italianate brick school had four classrooms on the main level and two above, resembling the first Laramie courthouse.

The 1928 expansion was designed by architect Wilbur Hitchcock and was built in a stripped-down Gothic style, with pointed arch accents in limestone panels in an otherwise plain facade.

The auditorium decoration was unusually detailed, with oil-on-canvas murals 19 feet (5.8 m) tall depicting scenes from Wyoming history.