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York, Pa.’s West Philadelphia Street F.O.E. – Fraternal Order of Eagles – Lodge, seen in this rendering, will be transformed into an art gallery under a $4 million state grant brought to York as part of the Governor’s Awards for the Arts event last week. The grant will also fund renovations to the nearby Central Market. Also of interest: More than 5,000 crowded York’s Central Market for revival services in 19th century<\/a> and Start Your Engines: World-renowned artist Jeff Koons drives into center of York’s art community<\/a> and Temporary river art collection may find permanent home along Susquehanna<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The concept of converting the relatively obscure F.O.E building into a very public art gallery carries more meaning than many other projects on a long list of promising downtown improvements.
\nIt represents a more realistic approach to promoting and providing for the arts than the costly YOMA building<\/a> proposed before the Great Recession just down the street.
\nThat’s pretty obvious.
\nBut here are some more subtle points:<\/p>\n


\nConsider that a mural<\/a> depicting Bob Hoffman and his York Barbell<\/a> company is painted on its side. That brings together an arts-oriented tourism\/economic development idea of the past, the Murals of York, with the current promotional idea, an arts district.
\nAnd arts\/mural combo illustrates consultant Roger Brooks’ notion<\/a> of combining York’s industrial arts and design prowess into a theme, “Creativity Unleashed.” What could signify this admittedly hard-to-grasp theme more than a mural touting York’s “heavy” industrial past on the side of an arts studio, its service-oriented future?
\nAnd here’s something else.
\nThat the F.O.E. building is available suggests a change taking place in York County and elsewhere across America.
\nSocial, service, fraternal and other community organizations, many fighting membership declines<\/a>, no longer need large buildings.
\nMembers of venerable organizations – the Grange<\/a>, Lions Clubs and Fraternal Order of Eagles (F.O.E.) – often are aging. Echo Boomers and their younger brothers and sisters are gravitating to more individual, more personal, pursuits.
\nInteresting.
\nThe F.O.E. building, a gathering place for that group’s private membership, is available to make space to highlight the work of some of the community’s most noted individualists – artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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