Elks Lodge (Lima, Ohio)

Elks Lodge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Front of the former lodge

Location:	138 W. North St., Lima, Ohio
Area:	less than one acre
Built:	1909
Architect:	Hulsken & McLaughlin
Architectural style:	Prairie School
Governing body:	Private
MPS:	Lima MRA
NRHP Reference#:	82001865^[1]
Added to NRHP:	October 7, 1982

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 now used by Tabernacle Baptist Church.^[4]

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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
^ "Lima, OH Lodge #54". B.P.O. Elks of the USA. http://www.elks.org/lodges/home.cfm?LodgeNumber=0054. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
^ "Lima Elks History". B.P.O. Elks Lima Lodge #54. http://limaelks.com/history.html. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
^ 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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National Register of Historic Places in Allen County, Ohio

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Historic district	West Market Street Boulevard Historic District

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Owner objected to listing	Cardosi Building-Hetrick Block Kewpee Restaurant Prescription Center-Madisons Sigma Theatre Thomas Building-Savings Building

See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Allen County, Ohio and List of National Historic Landmarks in Ohio

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