The Town Hall and Wayne Township House stands on ground donated to the village in 1837 by J. C. Wood as a market place. By the spring of 1875, village and township residents wanted to build a joint town hall and township house there, and village council members John Horner, John C. Klinesmith, J. W. Keanan, John E. Fackler, Perry Marker, and E. F. Sheffel, together with Wayne Township trustees Barthold Engelken and Prosper Dabe, wrote to Wood in Shawnee County, Topeka, Kansas, to seek his consent. In his June 8, 1875 response, James C. Wood gave his full approval for a building to serve as an engine and market house, mayor's office, and town hall. Completed in 1876 primarily by local builders, the Versailles Town Hall and Wayne Township House is a rare example of Italianate public architecture in a rural western Ohio village. Built on land previously called Hay Scales or Market Place, it was one of the few downtown buildings to survive the Big Fire of 1901. It originally housed village and township government, a jail, a fire station, and a community meeting room, while its large second-floor room with a stage hosted traveling medicine shows, local plays, and other entertainment. The rectangular two-story, six-bay building has a low-pitched hipped roof, 23 windows, and six entrances, with distinctive features including large double entrance doors, a covered transom, old style English script reading Town Hall, and Fleur-de-lis window caps. Its roof and cornices were originally iron, and the door and window caps were galvanized iron. The wrought iron balcony above the double-door entrance and the large wooden cupola that housed the town bell for fires and curfew are gone. Part of the building also housed fire equipment, and after the fire department outgrew the space, it was used by the newly formed Rescue Squad. Today the building houses municipal and township offices, a meeting room, and the police department, and it was listed on the National Registry of Historic Places in 1981 for its local historical importance and well-preserved historic architecture.