Eagle Lodge is a historic Masonic lodge building located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built in 1823, and two-story, three-bay, square brick building in the Greek Revival style. It has a low hipped roof with heavy box cornice and a one-story pedimented porch with Ionic order columns.[2]

Eagle Lodge
Eagle Lodge, September 2019
Eagle Lodge is located in North Carolina
Eagle Lodge
Eagle Lodge is located in the United States
Eagle Lodge
Location142 W. King St., Hillsborough, North Carolina
Coordinates36°4′31″N 79°5′59″W / 36.07528°N 79.09972°W / 36.07528; -79.09972
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1823
ArchitectWilliam Nichols
Architectural styleGreek Revival
Part ofHillsborough Historic District
NRHP reference No.71000607[1]
Added to NRHPApril 16, 1971

The Eagle Lodge was first chartered in 1791 and disbanded in 1799. It was re-started in 1819, and decided in 1820 to build a building. This was designed probably by North Carolina's state architect William Nichols.[2]

It came to serve as the town's lecture hall, opera house, Civil War hospital, and other functions. It was also known as the King Street Opera House.[2]

It was deemed architecturally significant "as an interesting example of the adaptive usage of early Greek Revival motifs in a building constructed specifically as a Masonic lodge."[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[1] It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d John B. Wells, III; Greer Suttlemyre (December 1970). "Eagle Lodge" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
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