Red Men Hall (Los Angeles)

Redmen's Hall
The hall from Shepard Street
Location	543 Shepard Street, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	33°42′24″N 118°17′20″W
Built	1915
Architectural style(s)	American Craftsman
Governing body	Private
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Designated	April 29, 2003[1]
Reference no.	751
Location of Redmen's Hall in the Los Angeles metropolitan area

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]

See also

• List of Improved Order of Red Men buildings and structures
• List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor area

References

1. Los Angeles Department of City Planning (November 15, 2010). "Historic - Cultural Monuments (HCM) Listing: City Declared Monuments" (PDF). Los Angeles, CA: City of Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
2. Deloria, Philip J. (1998). Playing Indian. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. 59–65.
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. Spwigwam.org: San Pedro Wigwam, Sequoia Tribe No. 140

External links

• Official San Pedro Wigwam website