 In 1896, Gross Point built a village hall to both house its government and serve as a community center.The two-story brick building has a Victorian design with two projecting front entrances, which originally led to the fire department and the village offices respectively.The small village relied heavily on alcohol taxes to fund its government, and had many taverns as a result; protests from prohibitionists in nearby Evanston, combined with opposition to new taxes to fund a sewer system, led to the village voting to dissolve itself in 1919.