Oregon Masonic Lodge

Oregon, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The Oregon Masonic Hall is a two-story brick structure completed in 1898 in Oregon, Wisconsin, built above a hardware store owned by lodge member H.H. Marvin. Designed in Queen Anne style with Late Victorian and High Victorian Eclectic elements, the building features a cast-iron storefront with three street-level display windows and an ornately decorated upper facade in cream and red brick accented with red sandstone. The masons adorned their second-story hall with multicolored brickwork, oriental-flavored ogee arches framing two large windows, and Masonry symbols including a square and compass emblem set prominently on the parapet. The lodge, chartered in 1865, had occupied several locations before settling here following a fire that destroyed their previous hall in 1873. The building's intact interior comprises reception areas, ante-rooms, a lodge room with raised platforms, and original bathroom facilities. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, it is considered an outstanding example of late-nineteenth-century eclectic commercial design.

Movement

Queen Anne style

Built: 1898
Type: Masonic temple
Materials: brick
Heritage: listed in the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places listed place
Place: Oregon, United States

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42.92583, -89.38500