The Live Oak Historic Commercial District represents the development of commerce in the city from around 1875 to the beginning of the Great Depression. The district provides the city's only collection of commercial buildings constructed before 1930. It has strong links to the coming of the railroad and early retail business as well as later commercial development. Although the district has changed its appearance somewhat since 1930, it retains a high degree of architectural integrity and maintains its associations to the historic period. Source: NRHP nomination.

The Live Oak Historic Commercial District covers eighty-eight acres containing eight contributing buildings.

The top photograph shows the old IOOF building on the left and the new IOOF building on the right. A marker on the facade of the new IOOF building reads:
 

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) is an altruistic fraternal organization derived from the similar English Oddfellows service organizations which came into being during the 1700s....Although in Britain the Odd Fellows tended to meet in pubs, in the U.S. the lodges often built their own facilities. Many of these are now on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places....

From Wikipedia entry for Independent Order of Odd Fellows