The exterior was originally clad in clapboard, but at some time weatherboarding was installed over the original siding.
The interior includes the original wooden siding, hand-painted doors and pews, and a stained glass window.
The original siding remains, and corrugated sheet metal covers the asphalt-shingled roof.
All the original sidings have now gone and now form part of the car park.
In some cases, bricks or cedar shakes have replaced the original gray-brown siding and second floors have been added.
Later renovations restored the original siding and chimney.
The original sidings have been retained, and the train carriages sitting on them converted into a novel independent youth hostel, known as sleeperzzz.com (sic).
Outside, the walls are covered by the original timbered siding, and the roof is covered with shingles of asbestos.
Its original wooden siding was covered first by insulbrick and then by the present vinyl siding.
The townsite was named after the original siding and the town was gazetted in 1910.