Barnes - Shope Building

Building Address: 139 & 141 S. Chicago Ave, Hot Springs, SD 57747

Date Built: 1893

First Occupant: Owned by P.A. Shope and Barnes.

Cost to build = $10,000. Al Dearduff leased the south room for his saloon. The Odd Fellows leased the upper story.

Current Occupant: Owned by SD Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Hot Springs Lodge No 112. Lance Russell Law office and Blew Taxidermy lease the street level spaces.

Sandstone Quarry: Marty Quary

Architect: Charles Bruce

Contractor: A. D. Mc Kay


Architectural Style: Rock-faced cut stone, pressed brick and terra-cotta are all utilized for the building’s facing materials. Stone pilasters divide the lower floors two business halves and central doorway. Glass block was placed in the upper lights. Perforated sandstone appears on the keystones, and labels appear on the second floor, round-headed windows. However, the most elaborate portion of the building is its cornice, which utilizes a variety of decorative devices. A course of both headers and stretcher bricks serve as the coping, and is followed by a row of rounded rowlock bricks or dentils. The next course has a projecting V-shaped design with medallions following it. Billet molding, without spacing, frames compound circular medallions which are an unusual design for Hot Springs. Undoubtedly, this building has the most ornate cornice in the city.


History: On March 11, 1892, Orland Ferguson sold his lot on Chicago Ave where his building burned to P.A. Shope for $1500. Work began on the Barnes - Shope building 9/30/1892. An elegant brick sidewalk with cut stone curbing was placed in front of the building 8/11/93 and was the only first class walk Hot Springs could boast of at the time. More commonly known as the Odd Fellows Building, the fraternal organization purchased the building in two portions: one in 1899 and the remainder in 1905.

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