page_title: Western Fraternal Life Association
section_title: Historic buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Western Fraternal Life Association / Historic buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: ZCBJ Hall, 320 W. 3rd St., Haugen, WI
context_page_description: The Western Fraternal Life Association, previously known as the Zapadni Ceska Bratrska Jednota is a fraternal benefit society and financial services organization in the United States. The association has its roots in the Czechoslovak immigrant community of the 19th century. It was once the second largest Czech-American freethought fraternity in the United States.
context_section_description: There are over a dozen historic buildings of the association which are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places:
  Notable lodges of the organization include:
  ZCBJ Opera House (1903), Verdigre, Nebraska, NRHP-listed.
  Z.C.B.J. Hall (1907), Arthur, Wisconsin, NRHP-listed.
  ZCBJ Hall (1908), Tyndall, South Dakota, NRHP-listed.
  Rad Slavin cis. 112 Z.C.B.J. Hall (1909), Comstock, Nebraska, NRHP-listed.
  Lodge Zare Zapadu No. 44 (1909), Hayward Township in Freeborn County, Minnesota, NRHP-listed.
  ZCBJ Hall (1910), Haugen, Wisconsin, NRHP-listed.
  Rad Plzen cis. 9 Z.C.B.J. (SD10-6) (1911), Morse Bluff, Nebraska, NRHP-listed.
  Z.C.B.J. Tolstoj Lodge No. 224 (1911), in Scio, Oregon, on the bank of Thomas Creek, NRHP-listed.
  Z.C.B.J. Opera House (1913), Clarkson, Nebraska, NRHP-listed.
  Z.C.B.J. Rad Tabor No. 74 (1914), Dorchester, Nebraska, NRHP-listed.
  ZCBJ Lodge No. 46 (1917), Prague, Oklahoma, NRHP-listed.
  Rad Jan Kollar cis 101 Z.C.B.J. (1921), Du Bois, Nebraska, NRHP-listed.
  Western Bohemian Fraternal Union Hall (1925), Meadowlands, Minnesota, NRHP-listed.
  Rad Saline Center cis. 389 Z.C.B.J. (1939), Western, Nebraska, NRHP-listed.
  Lodge Boleslav Jablonsky No. 219, Poplar Grove Township, Minnesota, NRHP-listed.
caption: Z.C.B.J. Hall in Haugen, Wisconsin
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