The former Elks Lodge (B.P.O. E. #54) is a historic building in Lima, Ohio, United States.[1] The lodge was the fifty-fourth of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks to be chartered; it is the largest lodge in Ohio.[2] It is located within the Ohio West Central District No. 7120.[3] The original lodge building, built in 1909,[1] has been sold and is, as of 2019, used by Tabernacle Baptist Church.[4]
Elks Lodge | |
 Front of the former lodge | |
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| Location | 138 W. North St., Lima, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 40°44′35″N 84°6′23″W / 40.74306°N 84.10639°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1909 |
| Architect | Hulsken & McLaughlin |
| Architectural style | Prairie School |
| MPS | Lima MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 82001865[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 7, 1982 |
The lodge building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 7, 1982.[1] It was one of seventeen Lima buildings listed on the Register as a group, the "Lima Multiple Resource Area." Of these buildings, it was one of the newest. Around the time of its construction in the early twentieth century, oil and railroading had taken Lima's economy to an extremely prosperous point.[5]
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edit- ^ a b c d "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Lima, OH Lodge #54". B.P.O. Elks of the USA. Retrieved October 29, 2008.
- ^ "Lima Elks History". B.P.O. Elks Lima Lodge #54. Retrieved October 29, 2008. [dead link]
- ^ Photograph in infobox
- ^ Hopkins, Phyllis G. National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lima Multiple Resource Area. National Park Service, 1980-05-15, 5. Accessed 2010-04-28.
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