The "old town" had been located at Cutoff which was near the mouth of the Huslia River. Old town used to flood regularly. Bishop Gordon of the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska worked . with the town council in procuring materials for this building, so the new town could have a school and church, neither of which were present in Old Town. This would have been in the early 1950's. The teachers lived in part of the buildings and held classes in the rest, and the Episcopal Church was to be used for services whenever a missionary happened into town. When the new prefab school was erected, the building became the town hall as well as the church. It was the site of dances, potlaches, elections, Bible schools, work space for various research groups, etc.