{ "id": "news-1955-04-14-6", "title": "\"What of its future?\" — the clubhouse photographed for sale, April 1955", "publisher": "The Bend Bulletin, 1955-04-14, image 6; Historic Oregon Newspapers", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1955-04-14/ed-1/seq-6/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-12", "notes": "A Bend Bulletin news photograph of the Drake lodge, captioned \"WHAT OF ITS FUTURE?\", taken when the Masons put it up for sale. It names the building as the home of the Emblem Club in Bend's early days and dates its construction to the fall of 1900. The latest photograph of the building in this archive, fourteen months before demolition.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/news-1955-04-14-6/", "evidence": { "id": "news-1955-04-14-6", "kind": "history", "date": "1955-04-14", "summary": "A April 1955 Bulletin photograph of the Drake lodge — the Emblem Club's building — taken when the Masons put it up for sale, fourteen months before it was demolished.", "findings": [ "The Bulletin photographed the Drake lodge in April 1955 and captioned it \"WHAT OF ITS FUTURE?\", reporting that it was for sale and its future uncertain.", "The caption names it \"the home of the Emblem Club in Bend's early days\" and \"Bend's oldest building\".", "It dates the building to the fall of 1900, against the fall of 1901 given by the 1956 demolition report.", "The Masons were to sell it on occupying their new home on East Greenwood.", "This is the latest photograph of the building in this archive, fourteen months before the demolition reported on June 29, 1956." ], "limitations": [ "A newspaper halftone at 144 dpi is a poor witness to architectural detail. The massing, porch, stair and setting are legible; materials and joinery are not.", "The construction year is the caption's, and the paper contradicts itself across its own accounts of this building. Neither 1900 nor 1901 is adopted here.", "The photograph is undated beyond its publication; when it was taken is not stated.", "The Emblem Club had been gone for thirty-one years when this was printed. 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It is the building A. M. Drake put up in 1900, that W. D. Cheney bought and added Emblem hall to, that the reorganised club bought for $5,300 in 1919 and sold in 1924, and that the Masons had held for thirty-one years.", "This archive holds two earlier pictures of it — the Bulletin's own of May 1919, printed beside the report of the club's purchase, and the Deschutes Historical Museum's lodge photograph. This is the last, and it is the only one taken with the building's end in view. The paper is asking a question in the caption, not reporting an answer.", "The answer came on June 29, 1956: “Historic A. M. Drake House Being Razed”, torn down to clear a fire hazard, with little of the building salvageable. By 1961 the Bulletin was lamenting it and recording what the site had become — parking space on Brooks Street.", "One detail the caption settles and one it disturbs. It confirms the street: the building faced the Deschutes, and the 1948 feature says the part facing Broadway is a later addition. And it dates construction to the fall of 1900, where the 1956 demolition report says the fall of 1901. The paper has never been consistent about that year and this archive does not choose between them." ], "related": [ "news-1956-06-29-1", "news-1919-05-10-2", "news-1922-02-18-2", "dhs-drake-lodge-2021" ], "date": "1955-04-14", "collection": "club-life", "publication": "The Bend Bulletin", "images": [ { "name": "plate-1", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/news-1955-04-14-6-page-1.jpg", "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11-tier-a/1955-04-14-6.pdf", "page": 1, "sha256": "c96f5e96b3e8bf59fffc2abacd8d9bcf3278791730111efdb29e54da906e66aa", "box": [ 48, 252, 688, 548 ], "width": 1000, "caption": "“What of its future?” — the Drake lodge, home of the Emblem Club, photographed for the Bulletin in April 1955.", "alt": "A newspaper photograph of a large wooden lodge behind a picket fence, with a covered porch and an exterior stair, captioned “What of its future?”", "credit": "The Bend Bulletin · Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon", "sourceUrl": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1955-04-14/ed-1/seq-6/", "color": true } ], "quote": "WHAT OF ITS FUTURE? — Bend's oldest building, the historic Drake lodge that formed the nucleus from which the city grew, is for sale and its future is uncertain. 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