Giffey Hall was built in 1916 by Anton Giffey, likely with bricks made from clay dug near the Giffey Tile and Brickyard furnaces. In 1937 Emile (Mrs. Paul) Miller received the hall from her father, and it served for plays, wedding receptions, and basketball games before RHS's gym was built in 1938–1939, though many people especially remembered it as the roller skating capital of northwest Ohio. During that period, its basement, which still had a dirt floor, was used by a green tomato buyer from Chicago, giving area farmers an outlet for their tomatoes. In 1954 Charles Murphy bought the hall and continued roller-skating, wedding receptions, and dances. In 1965 it was sold to Sheridan Mfg. Co., which in 1967 merged with the Sheller Manufacturing Co. to become Sheller Globe Corp., and machinery was installed in the hall. In 1973 Ridgeville Recreation Inc. purchased it, returning it to use for wedding receptions, dances, antique shows, and October Fests; during this ownership a potentially dangerous fire broke out but was contained with only minor damage. In 1983 Elizabeth Zuber bought the hall and used it primarily for wedding receptions and public dances. After Pamela Hartly became owner in 1991, the Maumee Valley Pool League held popular tournaments there, and she renamed it the 1916 Saloon and added a bar and restaurant. In 1999 the Archbold Community Theater bought the building intending to use it for storage, but soon chose to use it for theater productions instead, holding its first play there in December 1999, including a Dinner Theater, and receiving high praise from those who attended.