Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 89

The story

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The Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 89 is a building at 203 W. Division St. in Rosendale. It was built in 1891 in the Late Victorian style and was listed in the National Register in 2015.

Why it's listed

Listed under criterion A, with local significance in social history, its period of significance runs from 1891, when the Odd Fellows Hall was dedicated, to 1964.

Physical character

The building has a fieldstone foundation, weatherboard walls, and a metal-seamed roof. It is front-gabled, with two-over-two-light windows, fish-scale shingle trim, brackets, and a pent roof overhang. A rear stage wing was added around 1908; an exterior staircase added in 1954 was removed in 1979, and a temporary stage was removed from the hall in 1982.

Historical context

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 89 organized in Rosendale in 1889 and dedicated its hall in 1891, holding meetings on the second floor until 1939, when it consolidated with the Ripon Lodge. The Rosendale Community Grange No. 697, organized in 1931, bought the building in 1943 and met there until 1980, then sold it to Erv Zamrow; the building later housed Grange Hall Antiques from 1982 to 1986. The Rosendale Historical Society purchased the property in 2010.