

The Inter-Mountain photo by Edgar Kelley
Officials declared the Odd Fellows Property on the Georgetown Highway in Randolph County will be detailed for sale. The facility will be auctioned in both September or Oct, officials mentioned.

ELKINS — The historic Odd Fellows Residence will shortly be shown for sale and will be auctioned off this drop, officers claimed.
“They have not experienced any citizens at the facility for perfectly over a calendar year now,” Larry Ferguson, IOOF Grand Treasurer for the point out of West Virginia, explained to The Inter-Mountain Monday. “The last a person handed away shut to two many years in the past and it is just been sitting down empty. So it was determined that it wasn’t really worth trying to keep with no a lot more men and women than they experienced keep there the very last pair of years.”
The dwelling by itself and most of the greater objects will be auctioned by Kaufman Realty & Auction at a date but to be determined.
“Right now we are in the early levels and we really don’t have all the details collectively,” Andrew Yoder, a Kaufman auctioneer and real estate agent, told The Inter-Mountain. “We’re seriously not absolutely sure how we are going to present it. What we know at this level is that it’s going to be sold to the optimum bidder sometime in September or Oct.”
Some of the more compact products found at the facility will go up for sale this weekend at a lawn sale, which is scheduled from 9 a.m. right until 4 p.m. on each Friday and Saturday. This sort of things as holiday decorations, knickknacks, vases, dishes, puzzles, books, clothing goods, bedding and little home furnishings goods will be offered.
Even however most of the information and the day of the auction are not totally ironed out as of nonetheless, the acting superintendent of the facility, Doug Wood, explained he thinks the property and its contents will be available for invest in independently, or as a whole.
“From what I comprehend the house is going to be readily available independently from the relaxation of all the things else if another person desires to acquire it that way,” Wooden stated. “Buyers will have the solution of getting it all collectively, or just a selected portion of the home.”
Along with the 137-home Odd Fellows House, the residence also includes 165 acres and a barn. Wood said an on line auction is prepared in get to provide the contents of the rooms.
“The way they are going to do it is that you buy the whole place and the contents inside, not particular person objects,” Wooden said. “We have 99 bedrooms, so a whole lot of that is heading to be bedroom home furnishings like dressers, beds, wardrobes and chairs. There is also business products in the kitchen that will be auctioned off as properly.”
The Odd Fellows Residence initial opened its doors in 1910 and was initially developed for orphaned young children and the aged. In excess of the decades the residence became a facility that cared just for more mature grown ups and widows, who had been struggling from financial hardship. More than the past ten years it predominantly served as a nursing dwelling.









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