OTISFIELD — About 85 people toured the newly renovated Old Town House and ate strawberry shortcake Sunday during the Otisfield Historical Society’s Strawberry Festival.

Voters deeded the 1905 wood-frame building on Bell Hill Road to the Historical Society in 2009 after it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The society has been renovating the building.

Sunday was an opportunity for the public to view the renovations, including a new addition on the back of the building and a new basement.

They were also able to see some of the society’s collections of documents while touring the building with society founder Ethel Bean Turner and President Henry Hamilton, who told stories about the building. The society hopes to be able to transfer its archival collection to the building this fall.

The society has raised more than $100,000 that allowed a foundation to be placed under the building, in addition to creating the new space and other work to be done.

Once completed, the space will be fully accessible and the society will have a temperature-controlled, 25- by 20-foot archival room.

The Town House replaced an earlier one at the same location and was used for town meetings, selectmen meetings and voting. It was also used as a social and meeting hall through the 1920s, but in 1985, town meetings were relocated to the current municipal building, according to information from Maine Historic Preservation Commission records. Voting continued at the Town House until 2002, when the building was closed to public use.