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Odd Fellows Building
Built in 1907 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
One of 1,353 National Register listings published here for Middlesex County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1907, Neoclassical architecture, by Newhall & Blevins.
National Register reference number.87002564- 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.
Malden Medical Improvement Society. - This society Was instituted in 1888, but it was really an outgrowth of the Holmes Medical Club, which w.os started in the city of Maiden some ten years ago, and included the select phy.sicians of Maiden, Medford, Melrose and Stoneham. This society is conducted on the same plan .as the State Medical Society, meeting monthly, when essays and i)apers are read. There is also a presentation of cases. In the winter of 1889, there was given a course of lectures worthy of note. In this society was born the idea of the Maiden City Hospital ; and when Deacon Converse was asked what he could do to help embody the idea, he responded nobly by giving $10,000 in cash, and several -acres of beautiful land. .John L. Sullivan is the present president of the society ; John B. Mahoney, secretary ; Godfrey Ryder, treasurer.
Malden Industrial Aid Society. - This society w:is organized in 1875, the year of the great fire at the R iblier Works. Its object, as stated in the constitution 9 to relieve and prevent destitution, by renderin j; I'rompt, efficient, and judicious aid to the deserving, necessitous poor in our own town ; and to encourage thrift, by endeavoring to cultivate the self-respect and self-reliance of those to whom aid is rendered.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Odd Fellows Building
between 2015 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Arson/incendiarism
31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
26
Debris and open burning
17
Recreation and ceremony
17
Smoking
10
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,649 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Odd Fellows Building between 1898 and 1975: 728 Animalia, 504 Plantae, 356 Fungi, 26 Protozoa, 17 Bacteria, 10 Chromista, 8 Unrecorded.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A B Seymour, A B. Proper and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
17 workings within 5 miles of Odd Fellows Building: 9 plants, 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown.
12 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Lead, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Malden, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
In Malden, a tree was down on a car on Clinton Street. In Medford, a tree was down on Cushing Street. Also in Medford, a tree was down on Carberry Street. A tree and wires were down and leaning on a house on Governor's Avenue.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
e rlt bllly vlella massaulinscuno Certilying official has considered the significance of this property in relation to other properties: nationally statewide Xlocally Applicable National Register Criteria Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Architecture Commerce Community Development Recreation Period of Sianificance 1907-1937 Significant Dates Cultural Affiliation N/A Signi/ant Person Architect/Builder Louis C. Newhall State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. The Odd Fel lows Building is a prominent, brick, four-story building in the commercial core of Malden, built in 1907 at the height of the cormunity deve lopment as a street car suburb.
Funded and occupied primarily by the fraternal organization, it originally housed conmercial spaces on the ground floor and a range of meetinghalls and offices for the Odd Fellows. Its design inthe Second Renaissance Revival style is the work of architect Louis C. Newhal| of Boston, and incorporates elaborate terra cotta ornament on its facade. The Odd Fellows Building retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, and feeling, and meets criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places on the local level. The ialcen area, original ly known as Mystic Siae, was organized in 1649 from the large town of Charlestown.
Townspeople were primarily farmers in the large area that included several adjacent towns, and settled in the dispersed landscape of a mixed grain and husbandry economy. Population growth was gradual. After 1820, Malden saw modest growth as small mills and industrial establ ishments began to emerge. Early businesses included shoe-last manufacturing, silk dyeing, and nail rolling. Malden began toprosper following the opening of the Boston and Maine RaiIroad in 1845, which turned the agricultural village into a thriving industrial center.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 87002564, 42 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 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.
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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.
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