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The Odd Fellows Building in
Raleigh, North Carolina Raleigh (; ) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the List of North Carolina county seats, seat of Wake County, North Carolina, Wake County in the United States. It is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, second-most ...
, also known as the Commerce Building, is a 10-story
skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...
built in 1923. It reflects
Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements architecture In the United States, the National Register of Historic Places classifies its listings by various types of architecture. Listed properties often are given one or more of 40 standard architectural style classifications that appear in the National ...
and Classical Revival architecture and consists of the classic base-shaft-capital design. The Odd Fellows (IOOF) Building served as a meeting hall for the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political and non-sectarian international fraternal order of Odd Fellowship. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Evolving from the Order of Odd ...
and as a business. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1997.


See also

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Commerce Building (disambiguation) Commerce Building may refer to: * Commerce Building (St. Paul, Minnesota), listed on the NRHP in Minnesota * Commerce Building (Everett, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington * Commerce Building, Washington, D.C., the Herbert C. Hoover ...
*
Independent Order of Odd Fellows The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political and non-sectarian international fraternal order of Odd Fellowship. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Evolving from the Order of Odd ...
- IOOF


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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Raleigh, North Carolina Odd Fellows buildings in North Carolina Skyscraper office buildings in Raleigh, North Carolina Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Raleigh, North Carolina Office buildings completed in 1923 {{RaleighNC-struct-stub