Harrisburg Odd Fellows Hall

United States historic place


Harrisburg Odd Fellows Hall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


44°16′20″N 123°10′12″W / 44.27222°N 123.17000°W / 44.27222; -123.17000
Area	0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built	1882
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	92001382^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1992

The Harrisburg Odd Fellows Hall, also known as I.O.O.F. Covenant Lodge No. 12, in the small community of Harrisburg, Oregon, USA, was built in 1882. Odd Fellows chapter members L. Stites, a local brickmason and brickyard owner, and John Martin, a carpenter, significantly helped in its construction. The Harrisburg Disseminator then declared it to be "'the finest building in this part of the Willamette Valley'".^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 for its Italianate architecture. It was historically as a meeting hall, a theater and a specialty store.^[1]

It is a prominent historic building in Harrisbury's old commercial center, and, in 1992, it had a completely intact lodge hall in the front 50 feet (15 m) of its second floor. It is a two-story 25 feet (7.6 m) by 100 feet (30 m) brick building that is mostly intact, with the exception of its missing cornice. The lodge hall includes plaster walls, coved cornice, door and window trim, tongue-and-grove wainscot and "bases and crested arched backing daises at opposite ends of the hall".^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b Bess Tweedt (February 29, 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Harrisburg Odd Fellows Hall / I.O.O.F Covenant Lodge No. 12". National Park Service. Retrieved November 15, 2016. with 12 photos from 1992