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The Elks' national headquarters are located in Chicago at the Elks National Veterans Memorial and Headquarters, overlooking Lincoln Park, near Lake Michigan. This building was originally conceived as a memorial to the nearly 1,000 Elk brothers who were lost in World War I. The cornerstone was laid July 7, 1924, and the building was officially ...
1926. Elks National Memorial and Headquarters. The Elks National Veterans Memorial (officially the Elks National Memorial and Headquarters Building[1]) is a Beaux Arts-style domed building at 2750 North Lakeview Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. It is across from Lincoln Park and close to the park's Goethe Monument and statue of Alexander Hamilton.
To promote charity, justice, brotherly love, and fidelity. [1] The Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW) is an African-American fraternal order modeled on the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. It was established in 1897 in the United States. In the early 21st century, it has 500,000 members and 1500 lodges in ...
Prescott, Arizona. Early Commercial architecture, [1] very prominent in the city. 4. BPOE Elks Club (Little Rock, Arkansas) 1908 built. 1982 NRHP-listed. 4th and Scott Sts. 34°44′44″N 92°16′9″W / 34.74556°N 92.26917°W / 34.74556; -92.26917 (BPOE Elks Club (Little Rock, Arkansas)) Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks' Lodge 878 building was designed by the Ballinger Company [3] [4] in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. [5] [6] It is composed of the 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-story main building at 82-10 Queens Boulevard; a two-story annex to the east at 82-20 Queens Boulevard; and a three-story rear addition to the south of the main building. [7]
The B.P.O. Elks Lodge is a historic fraternal lodge building at 34 Prospect Street in Hartford, Connecticut. It is a Classical Revival architecture building designed by John J. Dwyer, and built in 1903 for the local chapter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Elks National Home and Retirement Center is the name of a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status that formerly owned the Elks National Home property. [7] The nonprofit organization has discontinued operations as of 2019, and its continuing source of revenue are the bequests of an ongoing trust, and the nonprofit organization intends to ...
The property in 2014. / 38.4786; -107.8753. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge, also known as the Elks Civic Building, is a historic building in Montrose, Colorado, United States. It served as an Elks lodge from construction in 1927 until 1969, and has since housed a college and city offices. In 2017 it was, and in 2019 still is ...