{"id":1774,"date":"2010-09-02T04:52:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T04:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2010-09-02T04:52:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T04:52:54","slug":"odd-fellows-building-natick-1888","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"Odd Fellows’ Building, Natick (1888)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Tackawanbait Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows<\/a> in Natick<\/a> was named for the town’s Native American minister, Reverend Daniel Takawambpait<\/a>. Founded in 1845, the Lodge utilized the upper floors of the Odd Fellows’ Building<\/a>, constructed in 1887-1888 on the corner of Main and Pond Streets off Natick’s Town Common. The Richardsonian Romanesque Odd Fellow’s Block<\/a>, designed<\/a> by Ernest N. Boyden<\/a> of Boston, continues to have retail space on the ground floors. According to<\/a> the History of Middlesex County<\/em>, Vol. I (1890), “The first story on Main Street is of iron and plate-glass, while on Pond Street it is of brick and plate-glass. The remaining three stories are constructed of brick with Long Meadow sand-stone trimmings.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tackawanbait Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Natick was named for the town’s Native American minister, Reverend Daniel Takawambpait. Founded in 1845, the Lodge utilized the upper floors of the Odd Fellows’ Building, constructed in 1887-1888 on the corner of Main and Pond Streets off Natick’s Town Common. The Richardsonian Romanesque Odd Fellow’s Block, designed by Ernest N. Boyden of Boston, continues to have retail space on the ground floors. According to the History of Middlesex County, Vol. I (1890), “The first story on Main Street is of iron and plate-glass, while on Pond Street it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,144,124,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-businesses","category-natick","category-organizations","category-richardsonian-romanesque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}