Is this building abandoned? [[Temple of Odd Fellows building Monroe & Randolph)

**swingline** · November-02-11, 01:51 PM

The Odd Fellows building sure looks naked without its handsome cornice.

**swingline** · February-10-12, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by swingline

The Odd Fellows building sure looks naked without its handsome cornice.

Yes, I'm replying to my own post from a few months ago.

Anyway, couldn't help but notice that the BWW rendering of the building included a cornice. Hard to believe that they would replace it, but one can hold out hope. It wouldn't be impossible with modern, relatively maintenance-free materials. It sure would improve that building.

**DLife** · February-10-12, 09:40 PM

http://atdetroit.net/forum/messages/125438/133468.html I found the thread on the collapse in 2008

**Brian1979** · February-14-12, 06:07 PM

The Buffalo Wild Wings in Lincoln Park [[Chicago) looks like they only have one floor, this is also in a three floor building. I've never been to this BWW, it's about a mile or so south of Wrigley Field in a pretty dense neighborhood though.

**dbc** · February-14-12, 11:25 PM

Brian1979:

Wow, that picture brings back memories. I spent many a night there when i lived in Chicago back in the mid-nineties. As far as i know, the bar is only on the first floor. Great place, though...love the beer and wings.

**Brian1979** · February-15-12, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by dbc

Brian1979:

Wow, that picture brings back memories. I spent many a night there when i lived in Chicago back in the mid-nineties. As far as i know, the bar is only on the first floor. Great place, though...love the beer and wings.

I'm in Chicago constantly and have never been there so I'm not real sure but I'll take your word for it. I know exactly where this BWW is located so it wouldn't be hard for me to pay it a visit, just parking in LP is another story. I would hope that the one in downtown Detroit is going to look like this. I think it'll look more like this than any renderings I've seen to this point.

I'm usually frequenting Schaller's Pump on the Southside.

**EastsideAl** · February-16-12, 01:20 PM

My maternal grandfather was an Odd Fellow, and my grandmother was active in their women's organization, the Rebekahs. My mother went to, and worked at, the Odd Fellows camp up north.

Grandpa was a member of the west side lodge, which if I remember correctly was out on Grand River somewhere [[though by the time I really knew him he was living in Florida), so he wasn't really involved in activities in the downtown building.

However, that was the central lodge for the Detroit area IOOF [[Independent Order of Odd Fellows), so he had visited there for meetings, ceremonies, etc. According to him, the Odd Fellows lodge on the upper floors had a lot of beautiful dark woodwork and several rooms decorated for various IOOF ceremonial activities, including an "enthronement room" with a large hand-carved wood throne in it.