{"nrhp_refnum":"78002163","name":"Lafayette Lodge No. 79","other_names":["Lodge Hall","Danker Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"333 Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Zanesville","county":"Muskingum County","state":"OH","lat":39.94219306400004,"lon":-82.00764556999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick fraternal lodge hall at 333 Market Street in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, built between 1857 and 1861 and also known as the Danker Building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hall is an architecturally significant part of downtown Zanesville's cultural landscape and played a central role in the city's fraternal life for almost fifty years. It shows some early Italianate detailing, though it is not characteristic of any single style. It also housed the city's oldest Masonic lodge, whose early officers included Lewis Cass.","narrative":"Lafayette Lodge Hall is a three-story brick building at 333 Market Street in Zanesville, Ohio, with a full basement, built between 1857 and 1861. It measures about 66 by 53 feet and sits on a coursed rubble foundation. Its truncated hip roof, bracketed cornice remnants and stone-lintel windows show some early Italianate detailing. The street level was converted to shops, and later a furniture store, with changes made in 1923. The third floor, once the meeting place of fraternal groups, retains a raised stage and a balcony on three sides. The hall served Zanesville's Masonic lodge, the city's oldest, which held its first meetings in 1805. Early officers included Lewis Cass and Isaac VanHorne. Masons used the building until 1903, when a new temple was built nearby, but the hall stayed in continuous use, later housing state employment offices and the county board of elections. It is valued for both its architecture and its fraternal history.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"William Hall; David Hatton","architectural_style":"Some early Italianate detailing; characteristic of no one particular style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered. The ground floor was being fitted with offices, the second floor had mostly vacant offices, and the owner planned to restore and clean the facade.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.068081-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002163.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002163/6c0b067fd9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002163/6c0b067fd9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Tristan Blatt","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lafayette_Lodge_Side_View.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tristan Blatt</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lafayette_Lodge_Side_View.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07000025","name":"Muskingum River Navigation Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/muskingum-river-navigation-historic-district-07000025/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990759","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_Lodge_No._79","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76836286"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/muskingum-county/lafayette-lodge-no-79-78002163/"}