{"nrhp_refnum":"82002257","name":"I.O.O.F. Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Woodbridge","county":"San Joaquin County","state":"CA","lat":38.154535155000076,"lon":-121.30083666499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story rectangular brick building on a corner lot at Main and Mokelumne Streets in Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, California. It began as the one-story Lavinsky Store in 1861 and was remodeled in 1874 as an Odd Fellows hall.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hall is a representative example of the 19th-century brick building type with commercial space below and a fraternal meeting hall above, built by orders that were important in early settlement. It is tied to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which provided charitable services during and after the Gold Rush. It is also one of three architecturally significant buildings left in Woodbridge, a town noted as a transportation crossroads and ferry site.","narrative":"At the corner of Main and Mokelumne Streets in Woodbridge stands a two-story brick building that began as the Lavinsky Store, a one-story shop erected in 1861. In 1874 a second story was added to serve as a meeting hall for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, whose Jefferson Lodge #98 had formed in 1860 and bought the store in 1870. The facade now carries little ornament beyond the 1874 date and the letters I.O.O.F., though shadow marks and old photographs show where wooden cornices, window heads and a belt course once were. Three ground-floor arches are bricked up, and later rear additions and a steel stair were added. The hall represents a common western building type with commercial space below and a fraternal hall above. Fraternal orders such as the Odd Fellows played a large part in early settlement, offering charity to the sick and orphaned. It is one of three architecturally notable buildings left in Woodbridge, a former ferry crossing and road junction.","period_of_significance":"1861-1874","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"19th century vernacular building type (commercial ground floor with meeting hall above, historically with simplified Classical facade detail)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and not in use. The facade has lost its exterior detail, the 20th-century gabled roof has been removed, and the ground-floor arched openings are bricked up. Odd Fellows met there until about five years before the nomination.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.117405-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82002257.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002257/6adeb58687-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002257/6adeb58687-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Steveozone","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IOOF_Hall,_Woodbridge_California_(3).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Steveozone</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:IOOF_Hall,_Woodbridge_California_(3).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861393","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.O.O.F._Hall_(Woodbridge,_California)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5967856"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-joaquin-county/i-o-o-f-hall-82002257/"}