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Billy Webb Elks Lodge #1050, located in Portland, Oregon on N Tillamook Street. The building was purchased by the Billy Webb Elks in 1959 to be used as their new lodge building. The Billy Webb Elks lodge is a fraternal organization and member of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of the World (IBPOEW)

Designed by the Portland architectural firm of DeYoung and Roald, the structure was completed in 1926 as a project of the Portland YWCA.

The Billy Webb lodge was a member of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks, an African American branch of the BPOE. The lodge was named for a prominent musician who led an African American Elks band that played in Portland and on steamships on the West Coast in the 1920s. By the end of the twentieth century, the building had fallen into serious disrepair.

Building previously used as YWCA, NAACP headquarters, was loaned to the USO in the 40's

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/billy_webb_elks_lodge/ https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2020-09/billy_webb_final.pdf