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The former Odd Fellows Hall, located at 536 Massachusetts Avenue in
Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...
,
Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...
, in the
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, is a historic building built in 1884 by members of 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 ...
. On April 13, 1982, it was added to 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 ...
. It is now The Dance Complex, founded by Rozann Kraus in 1991.


History

The building was built in 1884 by members of 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 ...
. Like many lodge halls of the time, it had business and commercial space on the ground floor while the lodge hall was upstairs.


Current use

The Odd Fellows Hall is now owned and run by the Dance Complex, which was formed to buy and save the building. The facilities include 6 dance studios and the Julie Ince Thompson Theatre.Dance Complex facilities
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See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts This is a list of sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cambridge, Massachuset ...
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Odd Fellows Hall Odd Fellows Hall, Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building, IOOF Building, Odd Fellows Lodge and variations are buildings for a chapter of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows fraternal organization. These terms may, more specifically, refer to: ...


References


External links


National Register listings for Middlesex County

Dance Complex website


Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Cambridge, Massachusetts Odd Fellows buildings in Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Cambridge, Massachusetts Hartwell and Richardson buildings {{CambridgeMA-NRHP-stub