The Odd Fellows Hall in

Troy Mills, Iowa Troy Mills is an unincorporated community in northern Linn County, Iowa, United States. It lies along local roads north of the city of Cedar Rapids, the county seat of Linn County. Its elevation is 869 feet (265 m). Although Troy Mills ...

was built in 1900. It served as a meeting place of the local

International 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 ...

organization. It has been deemed significant as "a rather late example of 'boomtown' construction dressed up in Italianate styling. It shows how the availability of materials like metal cornice, columns, etc. caused particular architectural styles or treatments to continue well past their heyday." with 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 1985.

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Italianate architecture in Iowa Buildings and structures completed in 1900 Buildings and structures in Linn County, Iowa Odd Fellows buildings in Iowa Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa National Register of Historic Places in Linn County, Iowa {{LinnCountyIA-NRHP-stub