The Griffith War Memorial museum/Regional Art Gallery was completed in 1939 and designed by local architect and Murrumbidgee Shire engineer A.B. Long.

Museum volunteer Pat Cox described it is one of the few buildings from that time to still displays its original architecture. 

“This was built in 1939 and extended just after the war ended in 1945 and was a War Memorial hall in the past and in that period of time it was used for dramas, plays and dances,” she said.

“There's not a lot of old buildings in Griffith because we're not even a hundred years old yet so places like Bathurst and Goulburn are a lot older because towns along the river were developed a earlier.”

On the state heritage inventory report the museum meets criteria for heritage listing in a couple of categories.

Comments include “possibly the only building in Griffith that exhibits an intact architectural style representative of its date of construction” as well as being a “fine example of the streamlined style of the 1930s.”

One way to discover and learn about the history of the buildings is through the heritage walk.

“There's a heritage walk in town actually and the war memorial is number four in the uptown Griffith cultural walk,” Ms Cox said.

“What you do is you walk along Banna Avenue and some of the older buildings have a placard with numbers on them and there's a pamphlet at the visitor's centre that sets out the walk and there’s about 24 of the buildings I think.

“When it was first launched we started at the visitor's centre, walked along Banna Avenue and followed the trail and at each one of the placards there's information about the building,” she said.

“Other buildings on the walk would include the library and the courthouse just to name a couple.

“The centenary of Anzac is obviously quite important for this building for heritage week and next year Griffith is turning 100 so it’s really a special point in time for the community and the town itself,” Ms Cox said.