Newcastle City Hall (Australia) structure clad in Sydney yellowblock sandstone ashlar with rusticated quoins. The City Hall was reported to be in good physical condition as at 3 May 2013. The concert hall, stage and upper gallery is frequently used by a wide range of community and commercial groups as a platform for staging choirs, orchestras, plays or other musical performances. Additional function rooms cater for civic receptions, community gatherings, weddings, national and international conferences, trade shows, seminars, corporate meetings, product launches and social functions. Newcastle City Hall is of historic and aesthetic significance to the State of NSW as an imposing civic building
Newcastle City Hall (Australia) the early twentieth century. In 1937 the 11 borough councils in Newcastle were amalgamated to form the City of Newcastle and the Town Hall became the legislative and administrative hub from this time. The name was changed to City Hall in honour of this event. During the war years City Hall formed an important hub for charitable and patriotic organisations as community activities of this nature burgeoned, and also hosted recruitment rallies, patriotic fundraising concerts, returned soldiers events. A request by the Anti-Conscription Committee to hold a meeting in the City Hall, on the other hand, was denied by the