From the Kansas IOOF website:
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"Eudora No. 42
Donald Bagby, Secretary
P.O. Box 262
Eudora, KS 66025-0262
785-542-2692
Meets: 2nd/4th Thursday (8:00 pm)
At: 711-1/2 Main Street"
From the Kansas Historic Resource Inventory:
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"Historic Function Remarks: Eudora Lodge Number 42, International Order of Odd Fellows, organized in March 6, 1869. The members bought the two-story brick building for $1,500 from Charles and Caroline Lothholz and received the property deed in 1878. The lower half long was a pharmacy and barber shop: Alf T.H. Oleson Rexall pharmacy (lower floor) (1946-1961); Cliff Pingry barber shop (1945-1955); Chet Daum's barber shop (1942-1945); Tom Rickett's barber shop (1940-1942); shoe repair services (1919-1925); [Charles Noell and D. Sheldon, both of Medicine Lodge] barber shop (1913-?); Alonzo Mack barber shop (8 months in 1913); Homer White Rexall pharmacy (1903-1944); John Kennedy pharmacy (1895-1903) (Kennedy built an oil house in rear of store in 1899); and McShane & Scott pharmacy (1893-1895).
Present Function: Commerce/Trade
Subcategory: Professional
Present Function Remarks: Downstairs, Miller Agency Insurance has been in space since 1980s, and earlier Tornedon Tax Service (1970-1981+); Medical Devices Corps (1967-1975+).
Residential/Commercial/Religious Style: Italianate
Physical Description/Remarks: This building has an ornate projecting cornice and projected arched window caps indicative of commercial Italianate style dominant between 1850-1875.
Plan Form: Rectangle
Commercial Building Type: Two-Part Commercial Block
Roof Form: Flat
Stories: 2
Condition: Good
Principal Material: Brick
Condition Remarks: The first story is made of stone; however, the front has a brick facade.
Architect/Designer/Builder:
Year of Construction: 1870
Certainty: Estimated
Date Notes: The building has been standing before 1878 and may have originally been one story. An early newspaper said
General Remarks: The Odd Fellows have owned this building for 130 years. Recently, they began having their meetings elsewhere because members had a hard time climbing the steps."
Text of historical marker:
711 MAIN STREET
IOOF LODGE NO. 42 BUILDING
This building was constructed in the early
1870's and became home to the Eudora
Chapter of the International Order of
Odd-Fellows, a fraternal organization first
chartered in 1869. As of 2012 the Odd-Fellows
continue to own this building and hold
regular meetings in their lodge hall on the
second story. They have rented out the first
story to various businesses over the years,
including many pharmacies.