City Hall

The first Town Hall was built in James Street in 1862 - the first ever built in Queensland.

The timber building was demolished and replaced by a brick building in 1881. By 1898 the Town Hall was inadequate for the demands of a growing community.

In July, Council agreed that new municipal buildings and Town Hall should be constructed on the site of the School of Arts which had been destroyed by fire earlier that year, pending the sale of the old Town Hall to the Roman Catholic Church for £2,000.

The current City Hall was opened in 1900 at a cost of £10,000. The building was refurbished in 1996 at a cost of $3.4 million and Council meetings are now once again held there.