In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed
NMB City Hall in 1930's
approval of a Works Progress Administration appropriation of $16,000 for remodeling and rebuilding the old Fulford By-the-Sea power plant building into a city hall.
Around 1961 the city embarked on a $2.1 million public works program having as its core a new four-story city hall with an adjoining auditorium and swimming pool which was completed in 1963.