[9] In 1919, Milton C. Garber, then mayor of Enid, and his commissioner aides, G. W. Pancoast and Jason W. Butts, proposed a bond issue for the construction of a building to memorialize the efforts of Garfield County soldiers in World War I.

[10] It was designed by the architectural firm Layton, Smith and Forsyth and constructed by Bass and Frankenfield Builders.

[10] The hall served as a venue for stage productions including plays such as Hitchy-Koo and Al G. Field minstrel shows[10] and for musicians such as John Philip Sousa, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Bob Wills, and Fred Waring.

In addition to hosting concerts and high school sports, the arena was home to the Oklahoma Storm, a basketball team in the USBL.

[15] In May 2011, city officials attended a groundbreaking to begin the Enid Renaissance Project which would renovate Convention Hall.