Here’s a little bit of Lawrence bar trivia you can use to perhaps win a few bucks while sitting on a bar stool: What is the largest drinking establishment in Lawrence? The Cave? Nope. Abe & Jake’s? Nope. It’s not the Granada, the Hawk or the Bottleneck either. The answer is the old Eagles Lodge on Sixth Street, with an occupancy of just more than 1,100 people. If you win enough bucks with that piece of trivia, perhaps you can buy the building because it is indeed for sale.

Leaders with the Eagles have placed their 21,000 square-foot building at 1803 W. Sixth St. on the market, but that’s not a sign that the longtime organization is disbanding. Caleb Regan, president of the local order of the Eagles, said the organization wants to move to a smaller location. Regan said maintenance and utility bills on the building, which is spread out over two levels, has become burdensome.

“It is just a huge footprint for the size of organization we are anymore,” said Regan, who said the local chapter has about 400 members currently.

He said the organization previously was able to make use of the building — which has two kitchens and four lounges/banquet rooms — by frequently renting it out for wedding receptions and other such events. But the event business in Lawrence has become more competitive in recent years, and that business has declined.

Perhaps the Eagles Lodge is best known to the public for its regular Friday night bingo games. Regan said the club hasn’t yet found a new location, but he said it will be large enough to accommodate bingo and other such functions. He said the organization may look for a building of about 10,000 square feet. The organization, in addition to serving as a social club for its members, also hosts a variety of charity events and other fundraisers to help out local causes. Regan said the group wants a building that will allow that type of work to continue.

“This is definitely not an effort to shut down or anything like that,” Regan said. “We’ll continue to strive to do good in the community.”

In terms of who may buy the existing site, it will be interesting to watch. In addition to the building, the site includes 3.4 acres along Sixth Street, although its visibility is a bit limited. If you are having a hard time picturing the location, it is behind the Dollar General Store. The site is adjacent to a large apartment complex, so I suppose that is always a possibility, or perhaps a new operator would want to use the existing building for a different type of club use.

As I mentioned, it can hold a lot of people. The numbers I got from the fire department last year for a different article, listed the capacity at 1,107 people. That’s quite a bit bigger than several of the larger bars in town, according to the numbers I got from the fire department. For example: The Granada, 900; Abe & Jake’s, 720; The Hawk, 498; and The Cave, 356.

In other news and notes from around town:

• While we’re on Sixth Street, I should mention that a ‘for sale’ sign has shown up in front of the longtime home of Anderson Rentals at 1312 W. Sixth St. I put a call into the business, which rents everything from portable toilets to tents to construction equipment, to see what the future plans are for the business, but the owner I needed to talk to wasn’t available. But I expect to hear back from him, and I’ll let you know what I hear.

• Get out your pencil — not your pen yet — and mark a couple of dates on your calendar to talk about the future of a new police headquarters facility in Lawrence. As we previously reported, the City Commission wants to hear from members of the public about why the sales tax election in November was defeated. Well, commissioners have two dates in mind that they plan on hosting listening sessions on the topic: Jan. 14 and Jan. 29. The first session would be 6:30 p.m. at City Hall. The session on Jan. 29 would be 6:30 p.m. in the theater of the Lawrence Arts Center. Both dates, at the moment, are still tentative, but commissioners are scheduled to finalize those dates at their City Commission meeting this evening.