Odd Fellows Temple

Architect: Kenneth Gordon
Year: 1918
Style: Spanish Colonial Revival
City: Los Angeles, CA

The Odd Fellows Temple at 175 N. Los Robles Avenue was built in 1933 as the meeting hall for Pasadena's Odd Fellow Lodge No. 324, the local branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows established in 1885. Architect Kenneth Gordon designed it in a Spanish Colonial Revival style with Mediterranean Revival details, making it the only Spanish Colonial Revival building in Pasadena built specifically for a fraternal organization.

the style

Gordon paired Spanish Colonial Revival with Mediterranean Revival details, a combination that set the temple apart as the sole Spanish Colonial Revival building in Pasadena built for a fraternal organization.

significance

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, the temple was nonetheless a large building that got moved in 1987—after its NRHP listing—from its original site to 120 N. El Molino Avenue.

nearby

Edmund Blinn House 520 ft · Prairie School · 1905
First Trust Building and Garage 0.1 mi · Mediterranean Vernacular · 1927
Theodore Parker Lukens House 0.2 mi · Queen Anne
Pasadena Playhouse 0.2 mi · Spanish Colonial Revival · 1925
Singer Building 0.2 mi · Spanish Colonial Revival
Pasadena City Hall 0.4 mi · Spanish Colonial Revival · 1927

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