 The building was erected at a cost of , and was officially opened on 28 June 1932.The double-storeyed facade of the new Hibernian Hall, with its stepped parapet and curved pediment, oriel window to the projection room above an ungated opening to the foyer and ticket-box, read more as a picture theatre than a community hall.The building demonstrated many of the principal elements of "tropical" picture theatre design of this era, including