1916, and the same fate later befell the Odd Fellows' building. While the Odd Fellows later purchased the home of Oram Nincehelser, located on Main Street near the Masonic Temple, the latter building is the only extant structure constructed to be the meeting place for a Mechanicsburg secret society. Architecture Three stories tall, the Masonic Temple is a brick building set on a stone foundation. Non-structural elements of stone occupy a prominent part of the exterior, serving as the surrounds for the main door and windows. The roof is gabled, and while the gable ends face the sides of the building, an additional gable is oriented toward the street. Multi-pane windows in the additional gable provide light to both the second and third stories, while the main entrance and its flanking windows are sheltered by a porch with square brick pillars. Components such as bracketing shaped with knees, additional multi-pane windows with bevelled slats set as transom lights, and buff brick walls combine to lend the building an American Craftsman appearance. Upon construction, the building's rooms included a club room in the basement, banqueting and reception rooms on the first story, and a lodge meeting room and additional reception space on the second, and virtually no changes have been made to the building since construction was completed. Historic site In 1985, the Mechanicsburg Masonic Temple was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its place in the community's history and because of its historically significant architecture. It was part of a group of twenty separate Mechanicsburg locations listed on the Register together (the community's numerous historic buildings were too widely scattered to have all of them designated a single historic district), the only one in the American Craftsman style, and aside from five churches, the only one not constructed as a house or as a commercial property. References Masonic buildings completed in 1909 American Craftsman architecture in Ohio Buildings and structures in Champaign County, Ohio Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio Masonic buildings in Ohio Mechanicsburg, Ohio National Register of Historic Places in Champaign County, Ohio 1909 establishments in Ohio