It served historically as an Independent Order of Odd Fellows meeting hall and as a specialty store.

[1] The Liberty Odd Fellows lodge had been using the building at 20 East Franklin for its meetings since 1889.

[2] The Liberty Lodge building is a two-story brick rectangular structure with a parapet top and a flat roof.

The center of the parapet has the Odd Fellows interlocking ring symbol carved into the stone.

Smith, a well known local architect, designed over fifty schools in the Kansan city area, as well as some buildings at William Jewell College in Liberty.