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Building Image Dates Location City, state Notes Baroona Hall: 1883-83-built 1992-QHR-listed [3]: 15-17 Caxton Street, Petrie Terrace Brisbane, Queensland: Designed by Richard Gailey; has also been known as Caxton Street Hall, Josephsons Clothing Factory, and United Brothers Lodge.
Alma Hall is the home of Alma Lodge #523 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Alma Hall was the first four-story building in the city of Johnstown, and is the oldest building built by a fraternal organization in downtown Johnstown. [1] The building served as a refuge for survivors of the Johnstown Flood ...
Odd Fellows lodges were first documented in 1730 in England from which many organizations emerged. While several unofficial Odd Fellows lodges had existed in New York City sometime in the period 1806 to 1818, the American Odd Fellows is regarded as being founded with Washington Lodge No 1 in Baltimore at the Seven Stars Tavern on April 26, 1819, by Thomas Wildey along with some associates who ...
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 ...
The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, American Jurisdiction is a jurisdiction of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows in the United States, Jamaica, Canada, South America, and other locations. Since its founding in 1843, its membership has principally included African Americans , due to their being discriminated against in most other fraternal ...
In March 1920, Allentown's Morning Call newspaper reported that five hundred and fifty members of the Masonic fraternity had gathered on March 8 at the Odd Fellows' Hall in Allentown to launch a campaign to raise $400,000 to fund the construction of a new Masonic temple. The newspaper described the planned building as one that would be ...
It features decorative brickwork and was expanded before 1892. It housed a public library on the first floor, lodge related dwellings on the second floor, and the Odd Fellows meeting hall on the third. It was originally a German-speaking Lodge and vacated the building in 1945. [2]: 5 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Subsequently, the odd fellows became religiously and politically independent. Prince George the Prince of Wales, later King George IV of the United Kingdom (1762–1830), admitted in 1780, was the first documented of many odd fellows to also adhere to freemasonry; both societies remained mutually independent.