the footscray connections came to fruition in the commission for the new footscray town hall for the municipality. the two storey building was designed in 1936, and erected by day labour under supervising contractors arp crow & sons in 1936, to replace the first town hall built in 1875. it adopts an unusual eclectic romaneque or even byzantine mode, which had previously influenced plottel for his st kilda synagogue, arranged in a formal palladian manner with a central classical portico with attached receding wings either side. it is the only example of this style applied to a town hall in victoria. the exterior incorporates a finely detailed entrance loggia with corinthian columns, variegated brown brickwork highlighted with intricately modelled buff faience work and a terracotta tile mansard roof. it contains offices on the ground floor and the council chamber and reception hall on the upper level. the interior is designed in a contrasting streamlined modernist manner.