The building recently underwent a complete renovation, which upgraded the heating system from coal to high-efficiency natural gas. All electrical wiring and lighting was also replaced. The wood double hung sash windows, which are original to the building, were restored to working condition.
The 2100 sq. ft. renovated ground floor has old maple hardwood floors, 11 ft. high ceilings, a brand new 1/2 bath, and double front doors from the former Surface Creek Bank in Cedaredge.
The 2100 sq. ft. renovated top floor has old growth vertical grain douglas fir hardwood floors, 18 ft. high beadboard cathedral ceilings, a brand new 3/4 bath, and a brand new kitchen.
Master stone mason George Hibbs worked with IOOF members to construct the iconic building of local volcanic stone. A 1927 completion date made of river rock is embedded in stonework, high on the front of the two-story building.
The "lodge room" space on the top floor has old growth vertical grain douglas fir hardwood floors, 18 ft. high beadboard cathedral ceilings, a brand new 3/4 bath, and a brand new kitchen. It is fully furnished with an antique brass king bed and two custom twin murphy beds and is available to rent for $3000/month.
The "store room" space on the ground floor has maple hardwood floors, 11 ft. high ceilings, a brand new 1/2 bath, and double front doors from the former Surface Creek Bank in Cedaredge. It is currently rented by Silent Country Cycle & Ski.
IOOF meetings, dances, religious services and many social events took place upstairs. The ground floor kitchen was utilized to provide a hot lunch program for Eckert high school until WWII. In the '40s, the ground floor also provided space for roller skating.
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Available for rent is the furnished top floor space.
Below is the contract document prepared by the engineer in 1927
Of work and material necessary to build, erect and complete a 30 x 70’ two story and basement building for the I.O.O.F Lodge at Eckert, Colorado.
On the west side of the road south of the Co-op store on the corner as you turn west from Eckert. All surveys for lot lines, grades and building permits to be furnished by the owners at their own expense, but the general contractor must be present at the time surveys are made and familiarize himself with the surveyors marks and benches.
Each contractor, general and sub, must furnish his own staging, tools and material necessary to carry on his part of the work.
Each contractor must remove all rubbish and unused material from the premises and leave the building broom clean so far as his part of work is concerned. Each contractor is to protect his own and all other work in place while promoting his part of the work.
All work must be done in a good and workmanlike manner and all material must be the best of its kind according to specifications of the owners or their representative.
These plans and specifications are intended to cooperate and make a complete building to their true intent. Any omissions or conflicts between these plans and specifications or any doubt in reading or in regard to their true intent must be referred to the architect and his decision shall be final.
The successful bidder must enter into contract and commence the work within ten days after notice of award and push the work to complete without any unnecessary delay.
Excavate all basements, foundation trenches true to line dimensions and depth as shown on plane. All dirt walls to be spaded out true and plum to line. All bottoms and fills to be left level and true to depth and grades as shown on plans.
All concrete shall be composed of one part good Portland cement, 2 1/2 parts good clean sharp sand and 5 parts clean gravel or crushed rock, all to be bulk measure, all gravel and sand to be free from dirt and other impurities, all concrete to be well mixed with a good concrete mixer and placed direct from the mixer into forms. No concrete to be allowed to stand or to be used when more than 50 minutes have elapsed between mixing and placing into the forms. All concrete to be well spade tamped into forms, care to be taken to avoid excessive dry or wet mix, a jelly shake mix preferred. All cement floors to be not less than 4” thick, well roded and finished with a top coat 1/2” thick composed of one part Portland cement and 1 1/2 parts clean sharp sand, wet mix and spread on with a straight edge, floated down true and troweled smooth. All walls and grades to be built up the heights shown on plans.
All forms to be built of 2x4s placed not more than two feet apart and S1S boards not more than 8” wide, laid close and tight and well nailed to studding. All forms to be well braced, tied and secured true to lines, dimensions, levels and sizes as shown on plans. Care to be taken to keep forms in place. No forms to be removed less than two days after the concrete is in place, the time to be governed by the weather and set of the concrete.
The outer walls of the building may be built of native field rock or brick as the owners may decide, but in either case the basement walls will be built of native field rock and cement mortar.
Basement walls and all footing trenches shall be excavated down to solid earth in basement and fills as shown on plans. All footings to be built of slush concrete, composed as for concrete and small field rock. Concrete to be wet mix and poured into trench from 2 to 6 inches deep and the stone immediately put into it and well pressed and settled down into it, as many as will press down into the concrete, then proceed in the same manner up to the top of footing. All footing to extend one foot on outer and inner face of walls. Walls to be 20” thick up to ceiling line of basement and of the size, dimensions and grades as shown on plans. All walls to be formed and larger stone placed against outer form and pointed up with cement mortar on back or inside, then the forms filled up as specified for footings. All excessive mortar to be scratched out on outer face of wall and pointed up as the forms are removed. Walls on first or store floor to be 16” thick and walls of second or hall floor 12” thick and the walls around the brick lining of flue 9” thick. Care to be taken that all stone are well bonded and set firm into walls. All walls to be built as specified for basement.
All outer walls above the basement walls to be built of Delta pressed brick (if so decided by the owners or building commity).
All brick walls on first or store floor to be 12” or three brick thick and the walls on second or hall floor to be 8” or two brick thick. All brick to be laid to line, in good rich lime and sand mortar and header bonded at every seventh course, all to be laid true and level with all joints bonded in a good and workmanlike manner. All corners and angles to be built up plum square and level. All joints on outside face of walls to be struck joints and all inside walls to have cut joints.
Build into wall at all points where wood partitions butt or join onto brick or stone walls as shown on plans. Three 1/2” x 7” anchor bolts equally spaced at each joint or partition.
Build in plate anchor bolts 1/2” x 18” spaced not more than eight feet apart with a 1/8” x 3” x 3” iron plate on each bolt, built into wall. All walls to be built up straight square and level and of the size and dimensions as shown on plan.
Build rear chimney as shown on plan with 16” x 16” brick lined flue and 12” thimble seven feet from the floor in basement. Put a 6” elbow or off set thimble (off set not less than 8”) in dining room two feet down from ceiling near the arch, and a 6” thimble in outer room on second floor. All thimbles to extend entirely from face of wall into the flue.
Build a brick chimney with 8” x 8” flue, starting in the store room as shown on plan with a 6” thimble in store room and lodge room. All flues to be plastered smooth on the inside of flue and topped with cement top.
Build wall coping as shown on plan with concrete of one part good Portland cement and 1 1/2 part good clean sharp sand well mixed and applied in a good and workman like manner on metal lath.
All outside doors and windows shall have reinforced concrete sills and caps as shown on the plans. All door sills to extend through the wall to the floor. All window sills and caps to extend into walls to receive wood frames. All sills and caps to extend one inch outside wall line. All sills and caps to be pre-cast and water tempered not less than seven days.
All reinforcing to be 1/2” square or round bars free from rust and grease and extend full length and placed not more than one inch from face or more than four inches apart and not less than four bars to any sill or cap. All sills to have proper pitch or bevel and growled smooth on face.
All partitions, walls and ceilings except in the store basement are to be plastered as herein specified.
All window openings in outer walls to be plastered around to window frames and finished at bottom with stool cap and apron and in angle against frames with 1/4 round. All door frames to be left ready for casings.
Ceilings on second floor to be furred with 1” x 3” furring strips 16” O.C. for lath.
All out angles and arches to be fitted with metal corner strips. No lath to run through corners or partitions.
All wood partitions walls and ceilings to be lathed with #1 pine lath, laid 1/4” open and joins broken every eighth lath. Lath to be well nailed to each bearing. Plaster all walls, brick, stone or wood, and all lath work on arches with one coat fiber cement plaster and one coat brown cement plaster mortar.
All plaster to be put on true and rodded to straight surface. All plaster to be well mixed with clean sharp sand to a proper consistency before applying to walls and ceilings.
Finish all walls and ceilings with a sand finish, floated and rubbed to an even finish. All to be done in a neat and workman like manner. All walls, corners and angles to be made plum square and straight.
All floor joists, ceiling joists, rafters and sub-rafters, and stair stringers to be #1 common douglas fir lumber sized and shaped and placed as shown on plans. All floor joists under partitions and all headers to be doubled.
All floor timbers to be 2” x 12” - 12” O.C. doubled under partitions and cross bridged in all spaces of more than eight feet.
All wood floors to have sub-floors laid diagonal with floor timbers and double nailed at each bearing.
Studding to be 2” x 4” and 2” x 6” 16” O.C. native lumber and doubled at all openings as shown on plane.
Wall plates 2” x 12” doubled and bolted to wall. Ceiling joists and rafters 2” x 6” 24” O.C.
All partition studding and other timber shall be sized and formed, and set plum true and level according to their respective places.
All running timbers shall be of size and shape as shown on plan, and staggered bolted with 1/2” bolts and cast washers spaced not more than three feet apart.
All posts under running timbers to be 12” x 12” and the proper length for place. The posts in the club room and store room shall be smoothed, chamfered and shaped in a neat and workman like manner. All timbers to be well anchored into wall with iron anchors not more than 8’ apart.
All outside and inside door frames shall be made of clear plank jambs, rabbited for doors and of the sizes shown on plans. All outside door and window frames to have brick mold or hanging stile. All single sash frames to be of clear plank jambs rabbited for sash and of the size shown on plans. All double or check rail windows shall have box frames with pulleys and pockets 2” sills and head, blind stop, parting strip and band, all of the size shown on plans.
All windows to be finished as specified in plaster, with a stool cap and apron at bottom and 1/4 O in angle at frame.
All doors to be cased with a 4.25” casing, header, fillet and cap. All walls in each room to be finished at bottom with 8” base and base shoe.
All floors in basement to be concrete as specified in concrete specifications. All floors on first or Store floor to be #2 vertical grain Douglas fir. All floors on second floor to be #1 maple floor.
All wood floors to be well jointed, driven up tight and blind nailed. All wood floors to be sanded to a true smooth surface.
Build stairways as shown on plans, with not less than 4, 2” x 12” sawed stringers to a run. With native pine risers 13/16” thick and vertical grain Douglas fir treads not less than 1’ 1/8” thick. All risers and treads to be the proper width for the particular stairs as shown. Finish with skirt board at nosing on enclosed stairways and returned nosing and scotia on open stairways, with newal post and rail at top. All treads and skirts to be tongued into risers. All noses to be finished under with a stair scotia.
Build roof as shown on plans. All rafters, sub-rafters, king boards and ceiling joists to be well framed and strongly nailed together and too plates. Sheet the roof with 1 x 8” S I S native boards laid not more than 2.5” open and well nailed to rafters.
Furnish and put in place on each eve of roof extended full length of roof, one 8 x 10” galvanized iron gutter, back of gutter to extend up 8” on roof and nailed to roof boards. Front edge of gutter to be 1” below the bend at eves. Furnish and put in place on each side of building. One 4 x 8” down spout extending down from gutter to ground.
All roof to be covered with Star A Star 5 to 2” red cedar shingles, laid not more than 4.5” to the weather and well nailed to roof boards, with joints open about 1/4” if shingles are laid dry.
Flash all angles around chimneys and between roof and gable walls, with good Old Taylor tin shingles and cap all ridges with an 8” galvanized iron ridge role.
Build store front as shown on plans. The wood lintle at canopy to be made up of six pieces 2 x 6” Douglas fir full length of lintle, set on edge, nailed and bolted together and supported in center with three 5/8” iron rods securely fastened to the I.B. at top and through the wood lintle at bottom, spaced, one in the center and one over each angle of entrance. All jambes, sash and casings in the front to be #1 clear pine. All sash to be 1 3/4” thick and the glass beaded into the sash. Canopy to be paneled, window stool 7/8” D and M flooring, back ceiled up from floor to stool. Outside under window sill to be paneled.
All to be well made and put together in a good and workman like manner.
All hardware trim to be Old Copper finish. All butts or hinges to be half surface. All sash lifts to be bar lifts.
All check-rail windows to be hung with iron weights and #7 Silver Lake or Bull-dog sash cord. Sash to be evenly balanced and trimmed with one cam-pull sash lock and one heavy bar sash lift. All doors to be well fitted to frame and hung with 3 1/2” x 3 1/2” butts and trimmed with an easy spring mortice lock.
All doors 3’ or wider to be hung with three butts to each door. All outside doors to have easy spring front door mortice locks with three keys to each lock. All doors to have base knobs where necessary to protect the wall.
All to be applied in a neat and workman like manner.
The plumbing contractor shall furnish all labor, material and tools necessary for the execution of every thing described in this specification. Any and all defective workmanship and material shall be removed and replaced with satisfactory material and workmanship at the expense of the plumbing contractor.
All fixtures, pipes, fittings and all other material must be figured on and installed as herein specified.
Furnish and install three low tank enameled in and out wash down syphon bowl toilet combinations and three standard porcelain enameled corner lavatories with slab, bowl, patent overflow, apron and back all cast in one piece. Dimensions: side 16”, bowl 11 x 14”, back 6”, high apron 4 1/2”.
All soil pipe and fittings under floor and in ground shall be extra heavy cast iron. Soil pipe, all joints in soil pipe shall be well caulked with Okum and soft lead. No bolted or slip joints will be allowed on any of the pipes under floor or in the ground.
The main vent stack shall be run through the building the same size as waste and shall be standard soil pipe, except for the vents for the lavatories, which shall be the same size as the traps and be of galvanized iron.
The water pipe to be used in this installation shall be standard galvanized iron pipe and free from all defects.
All threads shall be cut straight and true and all cut ends must be reamed smooth. All joints in galvanized pipe will be connected with pipe cement before they are permanently installed.
All connections between closets and wastes shall be made with lead bends and brass ferrules with wiped joints. The supply pipe to building shall not be less 3/4” taken from the main in street and run back through the basement to the back end of the building. Branch pipes to fixtures shall not be less than 1/2”.
Connect six inch sewer to soil pipe on north side of the building and connect same to septic tank west building.
Lay all sewer pipe to a true grade and cement all joints with Portland cement and clean sharp sand. All joints to be well and properly cleaned from the inside. The sewer shall not be less than five feet from foundation wall.
All plumbing, pipes and vent stacks shall be installed in strict accordance wit the state plumbing ordinance.
All roof and shingles to be painted with one coat graphite and linseed oil, well brushed into joints and cracks with a good roof brush.
All exposed iron to have one coat of red carbonized paint and two coats of paint and oil. All outside wood work to have three coats paint and oil. All colors to be selected by the owners.
All inside wood work to be stained one coat and finished with two coats of good varnish. All wood floors and stair treads to have three coats of good marmot floor finish.
