One of the few ELks lodges we've visited which actually has a website, upon finding it we had hopes that it might shed some light on the history of Lodge 1611. Alas, there on the front page was a line which read"
The Cody Elks Lodge #1611 history is still being compiled. Please check back soon!".
While we can't say when Lodge 1611 was chartered, we have discovered that an earlier lodge, Greybull Lodge No. 143, was active in Cody in the 1920s. Given that other lodges in Wyoming had been chartered many years earlier, the Cody Elks could have been extant even longer.
It did tell us that the club is open Monday to Saturday from 11:30am to 10pm and Sunday from 11:30am to 8pm. Beyond that, there is a rundown of the present offices, of which there are many, and a
quite long list of the activities which transpire at the lodge through the year, which ends with "
• • • And much more".
Above the main entrance and above the B.P.O.E 1611 is a minimalist clock. We might be able to refer to it as an art deco clock, which would date the building to the 1940s, at the latest. Then again, it could just be an artsy clock that the architect thought to be tasteful, or at least far from kitschy. Round and numberless, it is, at the least, minimalist.