Charley, your comment about the empty IOOF lodge caused me to think of the Masonic Lodge in Santa Fe, Montezuma No. 1, AF&AM, chartered in 1851.
I remember the old Victorian furniture; the Lodge was in an old building on the plaza. Kit Carson and the like, as Masons, were visitors.
Currently the lodge is in a building with stark modern furnishings-cold and unattractive- see at http://www.montezumalodge.org. I wonder what happened to the old furniture and fittings. Probably some given away, mostly destroyed by now, and the woodwork went to the dump; the building remodeled to cater to tourist dollars.

The old lodges, Masons, IOOF, etc., were an important part of life in the west (as well as back in your Yankee land). Too bad most of them are gone.