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The Improved Elks in the United States sponsor scholarship programs, youth summer computer literacy camps, help for children with special needs, and extensive community service activities. Selected US lodges Arkansas. William Townsend Lodge, No. 1149, of Pine Bluff; California. Clementine Lodge, No. 598, of San Diego
This is a list of notable buildings of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the American fraternal organization also known as the Elks or B.P.O.E., and of Elks of Canada, its counterpart. There are many meeting hall buildings of the Elks that are prominent in small towns and in cities in the United States; a number of these are listed ...
Elks Tower. / 38.58000°N 121.49139°W / 38.58000; -121.49139. Elks Tower is an Italian Renaissance building located at 921 11th Street in Sacramento, California. It stands fourteen stories tall, and is the former home to the transmitting tower for the KRXQ. At the time of its construction, it not only was a home for the Elks, it also ...
The Elks Lodge No. 99 / Park Plaza Hotel, now The MacArthur, is located at 607 Park View Street across from MacArthur Park in the Westlake district of Los Angeles, California. Completed in 1926, it was designed by architect Claud Beelman, later to become renowned an Art Deco designer, when he was practicing as Curlett + Beelman. Entrance detail.
The Improved Elks helped organize a convention on September 9, 1903, where the Daughters organized as a national organization, or "Grand Temple," and drew up a ritual, constitution and by-laws. A juvenile department was founded in 1907. By 1913, there were forty-eight temples in existence.
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. / 41.9323; -87.6400. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ( BPOE; also often known as the Elks Lodge or simply The Elks) is an American fraternal order founded in 1868, originally as a social club in New York City . The communal tomb of Elks Lodge No. 30 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Elks of Canada. Elks of Canada is a fraternal organization that was founded in 1912. It is not directly affiliated with Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the American organization founded in 1868, but the two "share a common history and enjoy a friendly relationship". [1]