Odd Fellows Hall in Apalachicola, Florida, at 143 Sixth Street was built between 1881 and 1883 as a meeting hall for the local Black fraternal order during the golden age of social fraternities, when emancipation and industrial jobs helped bring people together for leisure, socialization, community life, and mutual aid. Black chapters of the Freemasons, Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias existed in Apalachicola, and this communal care approach helped Black people build communities after emancipation. The two-story wooden building originally had a two-story porch across its southwestern facade facing Sixth Street, distinctive clipped gables known as a jerkin head roof, business tenants on the first floor, and a lodge meeting room on the second floor; at one point it also contained a skating rink. Beyond lodge meetings, it served other organizations and community groups, hosted a meeting of Black sawmill workers in 1890 when they chose to strike for higher wages, held regular dances during construction of the John Gorrie Bridge in the 1930s, and served as school space for some Dunbar School students after the school burned on February 11, 1943, until Wallace M. Quinn High School opened in April 1945. After the local Odd Fellows disbanded, the building fell into disuse, then was bought by the City of Apalachicola in 1987, renovated into several apartments with porches added along each side, sold in 1998, and remains in private ownership. The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows functioned essentially as a mutual aid society, part of a broader tradition of Black mutual aid societies in the United States that provided support with burial, sickness, disability, widowhood, and other family needs.