Friar Tuck's Restaurant & Bar, Nevada City

The buidling that Friar Tuckac2s restaurant is in is a bit of a misnomer in that the historic building is really new. The building on the corner of Pine and Commercial Sts. in the downtown historic district was originally two buildings built out of brick in the heart of Nevada City c.1860. By 1911, when gold fever had cooled, one building had become the home of Nevada City Hardware and the other Newtonac2s Shoe Store. That year,the Nevada City Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks #518 (BPOE) purchased the two buildings, joining them by removing both roofs, connecting them, and built a second story lodge hall which was the Elks Lodge for over 100 years; one of the oldest Elks lodges in the west The lodge hall had numerous street-level storefronts which changed often over the years.