Architect Lewis Stettler designed the Modernist building, which features a hipped dome roof, banded concrete, brick quoins and pilasters, glass block windows, and wooden decorations.

The park was to be a World War II veteran's memorial in the form of a recreational center, to serve Williamson City and Mingo County Citizens.

In 1950, Mayor Joe P. Hatfield and city council members helped plan the details of the facility, including the original idea for a removable wooden sectional floor for basketball, which could be stored under the stands.

Mayor Hatfield, as well as the committee, established that the building would be cinder block and painted white or gray and would consist of two floors.

The original opening date was set for fall of the same year; however, the coal strike created a steel shortage.

Over the years the venue hosted various events including local high school basketball games, graduations, the Harlem Globetrotters Show, and various concerts.

During the period of significance local dances, basketball games, wrestling matches, boxing tournaments, circuses, car shows, and celebrity athletes drew an average of 1,500 spectators to the field house.

Additionally, the local National Guard units use the field house any time Williamson is declared in a state of emergency.

When the flood waters reached the second row of bleachers on the second story, similar wood plants replaced the original 1959, sodden timbers.

In the Fall of 2015, the Williamson Board of Parks and Recreation made a motion to have the roof re-coated and outside of the building painted.