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ODD FELLOWS HALL
KUILER & DREWES, -1923, W.A. Scholtenstraat 21, Groningen
Odd Fellowhuis / Odd Fellows Hall ( Kuiler & Drewes )
© 2006 Arthur Blonk
Groningen has its own version of the Amsterdam School. One of the more expressive utterances of the Groningen School is Odd Fellows Hall, a clubhouse for this secret benevolent society. The three convex brickwork pillars in the front facade most probably symbolize the three grades of honour in the society: fellowship, love and trust. The dark brick facade boasts a clutch of decorative brick ornaments. In the same street at numbers one and five are two houses also built around that time by Evert van Linge, a contemporary who wielded a somewhat toned-down variant of Groningen School architecture.