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The nation’s original Eagles lodge has set a new home: A former quilting provision upon the body Seattle’s Lake City Way just along Interstate 5.

Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie No. 1, which sold its old construction in Georgetown to a developer in September, bought the former In The Beginning store at 8201 Lake City Way N.E. in spite of $2.1 million, according to county records.

Marc Eisberner, a trustee and former president, said the lodge plans to remodel the building’s interior and occupy it in four to six months. After renovations it determination include auditory rooms, a bar, kitchen, dining area and museum where items from the Eagles archives direct be displayed, he said.

Aerie No. 1 was the Eagles’ first lodge, established in 1898. It moved to Georgetown in the 1980s from its longtime home in downtown Seattle, a building once known at the same time that the Eagles Auditorium that now houses A Contemporary Theatre (ACT).

Eisberner said the two-story, 10,000-square-foot building on Lake City Way is a better fit beneficial to the Eagles, whose membership, like that of greatest part fraternal organizations, has declined.

The Georgetown building, a former bowling alley, “was way over big,” he said. “We had three or four times the membership when we moved there.”

Broker Norman Ives, who represented the lodge in the transaction, said the 1985 structure also should servile fewer maintenance headaches than the old space.

The In The Beginning shop once was a mecca beneficial to quilters and crafters. The Yenter family, which owns the company, closed the retail store several years since to point of concentration on textile product design.

Since then it has been used mainly for storage, related the family’s broker, Greg Inglin, of Pacific Real Estate Partners.

Eric Pryne: 206-464-2231 or epryne@seattletimes.com

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