Constructed circa 1941 as a barracks on the Banana River Naval Air Station, this building was declared surplus in 1948 after the station became Patrick Air Force Base following World War II, then sold to the American Homesteading Foundation in Melbourne Village, Florida. It was barged down the Banana River and Indian River to Melbourne and trucked on the then two-lane U.S. Route 192 to its present location. As the center of village life, the hall hosted AHF Trustee meetings and annual AHF membership meetings, as well as square dancing, life saving and first aid classes, Women's Guild activities, study groups for organic gardening, art and drama, and children's crafts, drama, and story time programs. From 1957 until 1963, it provided office space for the newly incorporated Town of Melbourne Village. After 1963, it was used for recreational activities and the Village Men's Club. In 1996, the Town of Melbourne Village Historic Preservation Commission began a restoration campaign, and the town, with support from a Brevard County grant, completed the restoration in 2003.