Ouray Elks Lodge, organized in 1898 by Dr. W. W. Rowan, was the first Elks Lodge on the Western Slope. It was designed by grocer E. H. Powell. The architectural design combines French, Queen Anne and Romanesque features. Brick for the exterior, except the front facade, came from the Ouray brick yard which was located where the hot springs pool is today. Brick for the front of the building was a hot fired brick shipped to Ouray. There are many significant appointments in this building: dark wood trim, a stamped tin ceiling in the second floor lodge room and leaded stained glass in transom windows on both floors. There is a bowling alley and an antique bar on the main floor. The bar originally came from one of the saloons in the town of Red Mountain, a ghost town high in the Red Mountain Mining District south of Ouray. Two other points of interest: the building is only open to its membership, and the clock in the tower and lodge room always read 11 o'clock, an Elk's tradition.