Father Pitt in Sharon

Category: Lodges, Theaters, and Halls

  • Masonic Hall

    Masonic hall

    Now restored as an events center called “The Corinthian.”

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  • I.O.O.F. Block

    107 East State Street

    A lavishly Italianate building on the upper two floors, but the ground floor, occupied by a bank, had a modernistic makeover in the middle twentieth century. The third floor is notably tall, suggesting a lodge hall, and indeed old Pa Pitt confirmed his suspicion by looking at the Sanborn map from 1908, which marks this building as the I.O.O.F (International Order of Odd Fellows) Block, with a bank on the ground floor and a lodge on the third. Later the Odd Fellows moved to a newer lodge on Walnut Street, now South Sharpsville Avenue.

  • C. O. Carver Building

    C. O. Carver building

    A date stone tells us this building was put up in 1910. Old maps show that there was a hall of some sort on the third floor.

    C. O. Carver building
    Inscription: C. O. Carver, 1910
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  • Odd Fellows Hall

    Odd Fellows Hall

    Neatly restored and repurposed as an office building. We can recognize an Odd Fellows hall by the emblem of the Odd Fellows, the chain with three links.

    Odd Fellows hall
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  • Sunshine Home

    Sunshine Home

    This classical building is marked “Sunshine Home” on a Sanborn map from 1920, and that is all old Pa Pitt knows about it. Perhaps a local historian can enlighten us. The second floor, with its tall windows, looks like an assembly room or lodge hall.

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