{"nrhp_refnum":"79003467","name":"Odd Fellows Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Yosemite Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"La Grange","county":"Stanislaus County","state":"CA","lat":37.66336008700006,"lon":-120.46244447899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A tall two-story wood-frame Odd Fellows lodge building on Yosemite Boulevard in La Grange, Stanislaus County, California, dated to about the 1850s.","why_significant":"It is considered a good example of vernacular Greek Revival architecture as found in 1850s California. It is also significant for its social role as the I.O.O.F. hall serving the pioneer community.","narrative":"Built around the 1850s, this two-story wood building in La Grange, California, has served as the local Odd Fellows hall. It is designed in a vernacular Greek Revival style popular in California during that decade. Classical touches include a roof pitch recalling a Greek pediment, box cornice returns, tall narrow pilasters at the corners and a three-bay front with a central doorway. The trim was probably painted green against white clapboard siding, a New England color scheme often used in mid-nineteenth-century California, and the foundation is rubble stone. A porch with decorative jigsaw work was added later, probably in the late nineteenth century, and several rooms have been built onto the side and rear. The hall is valued as a good example of its architectural style and for its social function as the lodge hall of a pioneer community. It remains in use by the Odd Fellows and is in fair condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in fair condition and altered; still used as an I.O.O.F. hall, with no threats known.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.118913-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/79003467.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003467/0787e97147-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003467/0787e97147-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mirokuofnite","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odd_Fellows_Hall,_La_Grange,_CA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Mirokuofnite</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odd_Fellows_Hall,_La_Grange,_CA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123857830","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_Fellows_Hall_(La_Grange,_California)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7077354"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/stanislaus-county/odd-fellows-hall-79003467/"}