1846 Grafton County built a handsome Greek Revival style brick courthouse with Gothic features on the Coos Turnpike in Haverhill Corner. At that time Haverhill was a bustling shire town. There was also an active business community in the village and several inns and taverns served great crowds of people who were in town on court business. The twin houses on the common were both taverns. The present library held the court offices.

1853 The Boston, Concord and Montreal Railway line reached Woodsville, bypassing the center of Haverhill Corner. Woodsville became the business and railway center.

1891 The court moved to Woodsville. Records show that a group of residents owned the former courthouse; it apparently went unused for the next 29 years.

1919 The Haverhill Academy graduating class bought the building and gave it to the school. It was renovated, renamed "Alumni Hall" and reused as a gymnasium and auditorium.

1992 A new school was built in North Haverhill and Alumni Hall was closed. By then, Haverhill Corner, with its well kept 19th century homes and public buildings, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places; the Hall, though — one of the focal points of the district — was sadly in need of attention: the beautiful cupola, once a beacon to the community, was leaning; the west wall had bowed and was propped up by steel buttresses; the old waste disposal system was unacceptable by modern standards, so there was no plumbing. Some feared the building would collapse.

1993 A group of concerned citizens, not wanting to see this and two other historic school buildings decay, formed the non-profit Haverhill Heritage, Inc (HHI) and negotiated with the School Board to buy the buildings.

1997 Having raised over $100,000 from local contributions to make emergency repairs and acquire the three buildings, HHI took title. They planned to develop housing in the other two buildings and use the income to restore Alumni Hall as a public building. Proposals were developed and various new uses for those buildings were investigated. In the meantime, Alumni Hall desperately needed attention.

2000 HHI began seeking other ways to fund the restoration of Alumni Hall. A grant from the NH Council on the Arts made a feasibility study possible. Partnerships were formed with the Town and Haverhill Arts Committee (HARTS); plans were developed for a cultural and visitors' interpretive center in the Connecticut River Scenic Byway. Architectural plans and drawings were contributed by HHI board member Jim Alexander of Finegold Alexander + Associates, Inc., award winning preservation planners and architects. Other board members contributed historical, legal and administrative expertise in this all-volunteer effort.

2001 Other grants were received from the Connecticut River Joint Commissions, NH Land & Community Heritage Investment Program, The Mildred Page Fund, The Agnes Lindsay Trust, The Roy Foundation and another from the NH Arts Council. Also in 2001, Friends of Alumni Hall was formed to help build a broad base of regional support and help raise matching funds for the grants. By August almost $12,000 had been raised and celebrated with a reception on opening night of "Snoopy", a production of HARTS featuring 20 children from the region. This show raised $1,800 toward the restoration and generated wide inter-generational support from throughout the area.

2002 The Town of Haverhill voted to appropriate $50,000 to match the grant; a major grant from the National Scenic Byways Program was approved. Work began as the cupola was rebuilt.

2003 The west wall was torn down, steel girders were removed, a new west side foundation was built, the wall was rebuilt (with the old bricks) and the addition went up. The septic system and a new roof were installed. The outside was done!

2004 The 1772 Foundation and Byrne Foundation made grants. New wiring, heating and plumbing systems were installed; interior trim work was done. All was not totally complete, but in the fall, rentals started anyway: 3 auctions, an art show and the Historical Society dinner were held. The chandelier from the Woodsville Opera House went up and the floor was refinished.

2005 Final touches were applied with help from the Northern NH Foundation, NE State Foresters Association and PSNH. Mark Chain was hired as Executive Director, and a Grand Opening was held in May. RSVP Volunteers and Friends helped make it a grand success!

Since 2005, the Hall has increased the number of its local and regional arts and business partnerships and steadily expanded its programs of exhibits, concerts and recitals, dances and dance performances, comedy programs, community and civic events, youth arts workshops, children’s and general theatre performances, and, with the Regional Chamber of Commerce, its region-wide photography contest. Working with the Haverhill Historical Society in 2007, it unveiled the newly restored, 1892 hand-painted theatre curtain from the Woodsville Opera House. In 2009, working with the Ammonoosuc Region Arts Council, it initiated a region-wide poetry contest.

Capital improvements include new chairs, stage and acoustic curtains, an interior front entry ramp, stairs for improved stage-access, installation of professional sound and stage-lighting systems and a control booth for their operation.