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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

Kelly Clarkson auditioned for American Idol in a German lodge hall with a haunted reputation and a bar shipped from the old country. Sons of Hermann Hall at 3414 Elm Street in Deep Ellum was built in 1910-11 by four Dallas lodges of the German fraternal order, designed by William Martens as a supposedly temporary frame building - now the last surviving wood-frame commercial structure in downtown Dallas. The building was made for gathering from day one: an upstairs ballroom for dancing, a ground...