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The Chinese Odd Fellows Building is a two-story, thirty-by-sixty foot, privately owned brick commercial building in the historical Chinatown of Boise, Idaho. It is located on West Front Street between South Capital Boulevard and South 6th Street near the Basque Block. The building features a
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table of projecting bricks with stepped segments. Built in 1911, it was a
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fraternal building, and is one of the few surviving buildings associated with the Chinese immigrant community in downtown Boise. The building was listed on the
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in 1982. It served historically as a clubhouse and as a business with shops on the first floor, and a lodge hall and sleeping rooms on the second floor. The building was one of many designed or built by the
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architectural firm of Boise that were covered in a 1982 study. Contractors Clifton and Corbridge erected the structure in the winter of 1911-1912 for the contract price of $4,648.Idaho State Historical Society. Inventory Sheet for Group Nomination: Chinese Odd Fellows Building, uploaded 2018. https://history.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Chinese_Odd_Fellows_Building_82000187.pdf


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List of Odd Fellows buildings This is a list of notable Odd Fellows buildings, sometimes called "Odd Fellows Hall", "Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building", "IOOF Building", "Odd Fellows Lodge" and variations. Also included is a List of Odd Fellows cemeteries, some of wh ...
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* Chinese-American history Chinese-American culture in Idaho Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho Commercial buildings completed in 1911
Boise Boise ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census, there were 235,685 people residing in the city. Located on the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and nor ...
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