Germania Hall on 320 Chute Street was home to the Germania Benevolent Society in Menasha. The society had its beginnings on December 1, 1856 when nine men started the Concordia Society, with the purpose of helping the sick and burying the dead. In 1862 a rival German organization was founded, the Menasha Turner Society. In 1888 the two societies combined under the name of German Unterstuetzungs Verein. In 1927 the name was changed to the Germania Benevolent Society. The building on Chute Street was built in the 1860's and razed in 1963.