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Scouts seek community support for new Litchfield Park lodge

Organizers will open 1954 lodge to the public, showcasing its history and plans for a $1.2 million replacement in Scout Park

A rendering shows the proposed Litchfield Park Scout Lodge, including a clay-tile entrance canopy and two garage doors for troop trailers.

Submitted Photo/Meredeth Stucky

Scouts and adult leaders with Litchfield Park’s Troop 90 pose outside the current Scout Lodge. Troop 90 was chartered in 1929 for families working at Goodyear Farms.

Submitted Photo/Meredeth Stucky

The current Litchfield Park Scout Lodge at 299 W. Fairway Drive. The city has identified the property as the site of a possible future parking garage, although demolition has not been formally approved.

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Wooden beams, troop banners and scouting memorabilia line the meeting hall inside the current Litchfield Park Scout Lodge.

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A plaque above the lodge’s brick fireplace says Goodyear Farms dedicated the building to “The youth of today, the America of tomorrow” under P.W. Litchfield in 1954. Schematic plans for the proposed lodge call for a relocated or reimagined brick fireplace.

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Supporters of Litchfield Park’s 72-year-old Scout Lodge will invite the public inside Oct. 31 as they seek money, materials and labor for a $1.2 million replacement in nearby Scout Park.

The current lodge at 299 W. Fairway Drive was built in 1954 by town founder Paul W. Litchfield for Troop 90, according to Meredeth Stucky, president of Litchfield Park Scout Lodge Preservation Inc.

Stucky said Troops 90 and 99 serve nearly 200 youths combined, and that Girl Scout and Cub Scout groups also use the building.

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