Lodge's Early History(cont.)

The first meeting room of Sunset Lodge No 57 was the community Hall, which was a frame building located in the back of the present Nowata County Court House, in the 200 block of North Pine Street, the lodge later moved to the I.Q.O.F. Hall on the third floor of the old Nowata Bank building, ;located on the northeast corner of Maple and Cherokee streets, the site now occupied by the Victory National Bank Building, where the lodge met until moving to the location now owned by the lodge, and which the lodge purchased in 1922 , their first-meeting in that building was on February 6, 1922.

In 1977, when Lewis. R. (Bob) Arnold was Worshipful Master, it was brought before the lodge membership a proposal to build a new meeting hall, a one-story building south of the hall now used for a kitchen and dining room, and Brother Arnold gave the first cash donation toward the new building, which was the actual start of the new-hall.

In 1978, when Jack Powell was Worshipful Master, he continued the building project, with, many members contributing cash to the building fund.

In 1979, when Dick Dustin was W. M., a finance committee was formed to implement construction of the new building, consisting of Norman Fry, Delbert Slack, H, W. (Bud) Kester, William Shoefstall, Jr., Bernard Roberts, R. A. Taylor, Edd Bellatti, Rell Schwab, Jr., and Dick Dustin.

A building committee to oversee actual construction of the proposed new building was appointed:

Jess Shouse, Charley Sprague, Dick Dustin, and the three elected trustees of the lodge;  Herb Covin, H. W. Kester and Norman Fry.   Charley Sprague was designated general superintendent of construction.