Odd Fellows Hall

Metamora, Franklin County, Indiana

Subject:                          Odd Fellows Hall

Erected by:                   Indiana Division of Tourism and the

 Metamora Shop Keepers, 1976

Located:                         Southeast corner of Banes and Main Streets,

                                        Metamora, Indiana (#71 on Metamora Map)

Text:                             Erected 1853, built of brick, it is the only three

                                      Story building in Metamora.  Ground floor

was a general merchandising establishment

operated by 3 generations of the Gordon

family; Milton, Noble, and Donald.  Metamora

Post Office once located in Gordon Store. 

Second Floor originally a town Hall, later

occupied by Knights of Pythias Lodge, Odd

Fellows Lodge located on third floor and was

Instituted by general P.A. Hackleman,

Franklin County native and Union General. 

Killed in action 1882, local Masonic Lodge

Formed in this building on May 23, 1857.