Red Men Hall (Los Angeles) Explained

Redmen's Hall
Location:543 Shepard Street, San Pedro,
Los Angeles, California
Coordinates:33.7067°N -118.2889°W
Built:1915
Architecture:American Craftsman
Designation1:Los Angeles
Designation1 Date:April 29, 2003[1]
Designation1 Number:751
Governing Body:Private

The Red Men Hall, listed as the Redmen's Hall, is a historic structure that houses a fraternal organization near the coast in the San Pedro community of Los Angeles, California.

Historic structure

Initially built as a library in 1915, the hall is a two-story American Craftsman style structure located on a hillside overlooking the Port of Los Angeles. The interior contains local wood paneling and exposed ceiling beams. The City designated the hall as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #751) in 2003.

Fraternal organization

A local lodge of the Improved Order of Red Men, a fraternal organization which draws on customs assumed to be used by Native Americans, has occupied the building for nearly all of its existence.[2] [3] Sequoia Tribe No. 140 remains active in their "San Pedro Wigwam" although the national organization has dwindled in membership. [4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Los Angeles Department of City Planning . November 15, 2010 . Historic - Cultural Monuments (HCM) Listing: City Declared Monuments. Los Angeles, CA . City of Los Angeles . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727011753/http://www.preservation.lacity.org/files/HCMDatabase111510_0.pdf . 2011-07-27 . 2024-05-02 . unfit.
  2. Book: . Philip J. Deloria . Deloria . Philip J. . 59–65 . New Haven, Connecticut . . 1998.
  3. Ed J. Cantwell, editor, The Postal Record (Washington, D.C.: National Association of Letter Carriers, January 1914; Republished by Google Books), p. 310, Volume XXVII, Number I.
  4. http://www.spwigwam.org/ Spwigwam.org: San Pedro Wigwam, Sequoia Tribe No. 140