Eagle Lodge is a historic Masonic lodge building located at Hillsborough,

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. It was built in 1823, and two-story, three-bay, square brick building in the

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style. Its brickwork is laid in

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. It has a low hipped roof with heavy box cornice and a one-story pedimented porch with

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columns. 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. 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. 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." It was listed on the

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in 1971. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.

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* Masonic buildings in North Carolina Historic American Buildings Survey in North Carolina Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Greek Revival architecture in North Carolina Masonic buildings completed in 1823 Hillsborough, North Carolina Buildings and structures in Orange County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, North Carolina Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in North Carolina Brick buildings and structures in North Carolina {{OrangeCountyNC-NRHP-stub