C. Froggatt, Butcher, and Old Odd Fellows Hall, Tay Street

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Identifier: D27520001_033

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C. Froggatt, Butcher, and Old Odd Fellows Hall, Tay Street

Dates

c.1880

Summary

South side of Tay Street, between Conan and Jed Streets. Block XIII, sections 6,7 and 8 respectively.

Featuring: O’Hara bootmaker, Caleb Froggatt butcher, and Odd Fellow Lodge Hall.

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Biographical / Historical

Situated west of First Presbyterian Church, the buildings were located where the Southern Institute of Technology is currently situated. Cornelius O’Hara relocated his boot-making manufactory from Dee Street to Tay in 1854 after a major fire the previous year. Caleb Froggatt (1846-1926) began his butchery shop on Tay Street in 1868, later branching into groceries and a brick business. Invercargill’s first Odd Fellow Lodge opened in 1860... on Dee street, moving to their Tay Street hall sometime after 1868. Invercargill had three Lodge memberships by the 1880s – the “Shamrock, Rose and Thistle”, “St George” and “Hearts of Oak”.

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