The land on Central Street where the Municipal Office Building is located was part of a sixteen-acre parcel of land granted to Samuel Marshfield in 1666. Although owned by many different people through the years, the property remained as farmland until 1929 when, in spite of the Stock Market crash, the land was purchased by the Eastern States Farmers Exchange for the construction of their new home office.
Springfield had always been a farming community and the Farmers Exchange flourished. In 1964 they became Agway and moved part of their operation out of town. In 1969 West Springfield purchased the newer rear part of the Agway building for use as office and meeting space West, making it the fourth building that West Springfield has called its "Town Hall". The building was named after J. Edward Christian, who served as selectman for many years.
The 1st town hall was the old Congregational Church Meeting-House built in 1702 and located on the Town Common. In the 1700’s there was no separation of church and state so the first town hall and the Meeting-House were one and the same. In 1802, the Congregational Church moved to its new location on the top of "meeting House Hill" - as White Church Hill was called at that time, but the town government remained at the 100 year old Meeting House on the common thereby becoming the first true "Town hall".
The second town hall was, like the first one, not a building specifically built for that purpose. In 1820 the School District built a new "brick" schoolhouse next to the cemetery where the Senior Center is today. On December 1, 1845 the town signed a "perpetual lease" for use of part of the second floor of the schoolhouse "to be used for the transaction of all town business".
Town business continued to be conducted in the Brick School House until 1874 when that building was torn down to make way for the 3rd "town Hall", still known by many as "the old town hall". The 1874 "old town hall" remained in use until 1969 when the town acquired the Agway building and converted it into the 4th town hall.