Knights of Pythias Hall - Roseburg Downtown Historic District - Roseburg, OR - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

This two-story cast concrete building was built in 1910 for the Knights of Pythias. It features a business space with display windows at the street level. A wide stairway at the south end of the building offers access to the large room on the second floor which was regularly used by the Knights of Pythias as their meeting room. The words KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS are incised across the top of the building just below the cornice in three horizontal decorative panels with stepped ends; three more identical panels separate the two floors. There are replacement metal frame display windows and entryway with sidelights at the street level. Windows on the second floor are wood frame double-hung one/one in an irregular configuration of an end pilaster, wide, narrow, and wide window, pilaster, two wide windows, pilaster, wide, narrow, and wide window, pilaster. A substantial cornice caps the building. Art Deco touches include the stepped horizontal panels.

The Knights of Pythias is a fraternal order with no particular religious affiliation. It performs charitable work and emphasizes high moral standards in its members. The Knights of Pythias order was founded in 1864 in Washington DC; today the Knights of Pythias has about 60,000 members

This building is Inventory #124 on page 62 of the NRHP Nomination Form and was erected in 1910. Today, this building is home to From Days Gone By Antique Store on the first floor and the Knights of Pythias Lodge on the second floor.