The hotel was originally a wooden structure before it was replaced with a more-modern brick building about 100 years ago.

Tooths brewery inspectors began visiting Spring Hill in the 1920s and their reports and snapshots were recorded for the company and are now held by the Australian National University and Noel Butlin Archive.

While the inspectors didn't bother to record the location of pubs in Orange they went to great trouble around 1929 to draw maps locating the hotels in small towns.

The one of the Spring Hill Hotel includes a siding running into Prescott's chaff mill up the road from the hotel.

An inspector recorded that rival Tooheys bought the freehold to the Whistlestop hotel in March 1935 for 2450 pounds.

George Burton was the licensee from 1939-1947 before a succession of licensees held it for short periods until William Burt held it from 1953-1962 as his first hotel licence.

The hotel closed for trading on June 1, 1973 and re-opened under a tavern licence two years later.

From August 1976 it was named the Whistle Stop Tavern [with Whistle Stop as two words] with the Bennett family as licensees.