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Strangers Refuge Lodge Number 74, IOOF

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The New Richland Odd Fellows Hall is a historic Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) clubhouse in New Richland, Minnesota, United States, built in 1902. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 under the name Strangers Refuge Lodge Number 74, IOOF for its local significance in the themes of entertainment/recreation and social history.”

Wikipedia article New Richland Odd Fellows Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Waseca County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 119 S. Broadway Ave., New Richland, 56072
  • When was it listed? July 2006
  • Category. building
  • City. New Richland city
  • National Register reference number. 06000601 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

122 words

This property stands in New Richland City. Child's History of Waseca County, Minnesota : from Its First Settlement in 1854 to the Close of the Year 1904, a Record of Fifty Years : the Story of the Pioneers, published 1905 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on New Richland City - 122 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Richland, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 13 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Richland$100,000A large church steeple was blown over, landing in the parking lot.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindNew Richland$50,000High thunderstorm winds blew a roof off of a 376-foot hog confinement building just south of New Richland.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Richland-Several trees were downed, including one across a railroad track.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Richland-There were photos of large tree branches down across town and several trees snapped near their base. Some branches were down on homes and power lines were down. Time was estimated via radar.
May 2023Flash FloodNew Richland-Emergency Management in Waseca County reported that street and small stream flooding was occurring in and about three miles north of New Richland, MN. There were also reports of numerous structures and homes with flooded basements. Approximately two miles north of New Richland, a trained spotter reported that heavy rains were allowing Boot Creek to flow about six feet out of its banks and it started to run over 120th Street (Paved elevated road). Approximately three miles north of New Richland, MN, heavy rainfall caused flooding of a roadway which cut off access to a household's driveway. New Richland City Administration confirmed that flash flood waters receded within 24 hours and no longer posed a threat to public safety.
August 2021Tornado (EF0)New Richland-A damage survey noted several trees were damaged at a farmstead, with large branches down. Satellite imagery showed more details to the tornado path. A time-stamped photo from a storm chaser showed a visible funnel in the area where the tornado damage occurred, and the photo was consistent with the tornado being in the flanking line.
August 2021Tornado (EF0)New Richland-Radar shows this tornado occurred with a flanking line, just south of precipitation echoes. A damage survey revealed mostly corn damage, but some large branches were knocked down at a farmstead and some plywood was blown into a field. The damage survey revealed it was tornadic. Satellite imagery revealed more detail about the exact path through fields. Storm chaser video definitely shows the tornado and correct time, which was consistent with this being a tornado from a flanking line.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Richland-A large tree was blown down at the intersection of 105th and 120th streets.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Richland-Power lines were blown down in New Richland.
September 2016FloodNew Richland-Runoff from torrential rainfall that occurred across most of Waseca County Wednesday night, September 21st, caused numerous roads to remain impassable and closed.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Richland-Several areas in town were without power due to power lines blown down.
March 2010FloodNew Richland-Flood waters caused 160th Street, near New Richland to close.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Richland-Several large trees were blown down near New Richland, Minnesota.
June 2006HailNew Richland-Hail covered the ground up to half an inch. Some small branches and leaves were removed from trees.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Richland-Power lines were downed.
June 2004Funnel CloudNew Richland-HAM Radio operators relayed a spotter report of a funnel cloud halfway down to the ground.
August 2004Flash FloodNew Richland-Widespread field and lowland flooding was reported around New Richland. A small creek overflowed into a ballpark in town.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Richland-Numerous ten inch diameter branches down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Richland-Trees and power lines down on southwest side of city. Grain bin lost its top.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Richland-no account filed
August 2020HailNew Richland-no account filed
August 2018HailNew Richland-no account filed
June 2015HailNew Richland-no account filed
June 2010HailNew Richland-no account filed
March 2007HailNew Richland-no account filed
May 2006HailNew Richland-no account filed
October 2006HailNew Richland-no account filed
June 2004HailNew Richland-no account filed
May 2001HailNew Richland-no account filed
June 2001HailNew Richland-no account filed
June 1998HailNew Richland-no account filed
July 1997Funnel CloudNew Richland-no account filed
July 1997HailNew Richland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waseca County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Vista Lutheran Church4.6 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000601 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Waseca CountyAll 12 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.