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Odd Fellows Home (Gainesville, Florida) 1893 built Gainesville, Florida "Odd Fellows Home was built in 1893 as a tuberculosis sanatorium for Odd Fellows and Rebekahs. It was subsequently used as a girls school and as the city hospital. In 1914 it became a rest home for aged Odd Fellows and an orphanage. The home was closed in 1966." [15]
In 1810 a group split from the Order and became the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity. [3] In 1819 a branch of Oddfellowship was introduced into the United States by Thomas Wildey, and remained an organic party of the Manchester Unity until 1843, when it became a separate organization under the name Independent Order of Odd ...
Odd Fellows (or Oddfellows; also Odd Fellowship or Oddfellowship [1]) is an international fraternity consisting of lodges first documented in 1730 in London. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first known lodge was called Loyal Aristarcus Lodge No. 9, suggesting there were earlier ones in the 18th century.
Name Charter date and range Founding location Type Afffiliation Status References Prince Hall Freemasonry: September 29, 1784: Boston, Massachusetts: Freemasonry, community-based Active Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America: 1843 New York City, New York: General, community-based Independent Active
Independent Order of Odd Fellows (aka Odd Fellows) Independent Order of St. Luke; International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor; Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America; Household of Ruth; Improved Order of Red Men; Junior Order of United American Mechanics; Knights of Columbus; Knights of Peter Claver
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows was established in Cuba when Porvenir Lodge no.1 was instituted in Havana on August 26, 1883. More lodges were then instituted the following years. [31] In 2012 there were about 116 Odd Fellows Lodges, 50 Rebekahs Lodges, 33 Encampments, 12 cantons and 2 Junior Lodges, totaling to about 15,000 members in ...
The Odd Fellows, he said, was the second oldest, behind the Masons. Through the years the building housed a variety of businesses, including a grocery store, a men’s clothing store, a flower ...
Jacksonville, Florida: NRHP-listed [3] The building serves as the headquarters of the Most Worshipful Union Grand Lodge of Florida and Belize (a Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge). [55] 4: Masonic Temple of Citrus Lodge No. 118, F. and A.M. 1910 built 2010 NRHP-listed 111 West Main Street and 95 South Pine Avenue Inverness, Florida: Neoclassical. [3]