The building is beautiful and full of history! Did not realize this used to be a children’s home as well. Corsicana has also has an old State a Home where children housed. The children from both schools were in competition with each other.
June 2023
Beautiful building with a nice museum on the I.O.O.F inside.
July 2021
Decently built, large auditorium, I got my 1st and 2nd covid shots her in the last month. But I've delivered here pre covid and the lodge looks nice inside. I really dont kno much about the IOOF but they maintain this and several other buildings around town. There is a large nice park behind this location maintained by... read full comment
The Grand Lodge IOOF of Texas is a non-profit fraternal organization that is over all Odd Fellow Lodges of Texas. "We seek to improve and elevate the character of humanity and look forward with ardent joy to that day when one law shall bind all nations, tongues, and kindred on earth and that law will be the law of universal brotherhood and sisterhood, under the fatherhood of God."
The commands of Odd Fellowship are to: Visit the Sick, Relieve the Distressed, to Bury the Dead, Educate the Orphan, and to Protect and Care for the Aged and Widowed.
