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Sutton Masonic Hall was built in 1897 by a group of local Freemasons. During the Second World War the Hall was requisitioned by the military for 2 years and was used as a 'rest centre' and 'temporary shelter' by families displaced from their homes. It was returned to the owners in 1947.
Mural on the ceiling of the Masonic Hall, West King Street on Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (See info in photo below)
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Built about 1910 after the first Masonic Hall burned. The lower level was a grocery/hardware store for many years.
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This 1890 Romanesque Revival style building, located at the corner of 16th and Welton streets, served for many years as a center of activities for the Masonic Order in Colorado. As one of downtown Denver's few surviving examples of the use of rockfaced Manitou sandstone as a building material, its warm red-orange walls provide an interesting contrast with the cool grey stone of the adjacent Kittredge Building. Denver architect Frank E. Edbrooke's design for the five-story Masonic Temple Building incorporated numerous semicircular arches and intricately carved detailing. After a 1984 fire nearly destroyed the building, its walls were reinforced with a steel frame.
(source: history.denverlibrary.org)
Built in 1916 and serving as a concert hall for most of its like, it is currently called The Concert Hall and I don't know why all the people were lined up on this day.
The Masonic Hall on Oxford Street, Marlborough, looking down from St Mary’s churchyard on a cloudy evening in early May. The side facing Oxford Street is the back of the building. Its main front, two storeys with a canted centre and panelled double doors, faces New Road.
Historic England dates the hall to the early or mid 19th century. The Oxford Street side is a single tall storey of red brick under a slate roof. A stone cornice runs across it, and the brick pediment above holds a stone panel lettered “Masonic Hall”. A plain door under a flat hood stands between two bricked-up round-headed windows. Above the door, a round panel carries the square and compasses. The building has been listed Grade II since 1974, and is home to the town’s lodges, among them the Lodge of Loyalty No. 1533.
To the right are Nos 4 and 5 Oxford Street, an 18th-century pair in red brick. Grey headers ring the heads of the doors and windows, and on the first floor a blank ashlar panel framed in grey brick once carried an inscription. They are also listed Grade II. On the left is a tile-hung gable end.
Marlborough (pop. 9,129) is a market town on the River Kennet in east Wiltshire, on the old London-to-Bath road, now the A4, 16 km (10 miles) south-east of Swindon. Its High Street, some 32 m (105 ft) wide, is among the broadest in England. Much of the street was rebuilt after a fire in April 1653 destroyed the parish church, the guildhall and around 250 houses. It still hosts markets on Wednesdays and Saturdays under a charter granted by King John in 1204.
This impressive building in Brisbane Street, Launceston was completed in 1884, and has been the centre for Lodge activities ever since. It is currently used by five local Masonic Lodges.
Our town's Masonic Temple with light trails early one morning. The door in the centre leads to the actual temple upstairs. There are shops below, and I believe there always have been, even in the early days. There is a pet store and a bowling alley on the left and right sides, respectively. Trees on our main street are lit all year.
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After 10 days of following the Mississippi River, I returned to a Bay Area shrouded in smoke. It's difficult to know what is more heart-wrenching, the rapid, devastating impact of a critical event or the long, interminable destruction caused by decay and disinvestment. Maybe they're both worth our attention in their own way. I don't know how to help in either case, other than to document, analyze, or understand what's there. Sometimes, it's all beyond understanding, and the best we can hope for is living as best we can, good and responsible citizens, helping fellow humankind in their time of need. Pictured is a Masonic Hall in Mississippi, long left for fallow, but once a social center for thousands of families. These are teaching times.
Facebook ♦ Twitter ♦ Pinterest ♦ Instagram ♦ 500px ♦ Website Construction began November 2, 1916, when the contract was signed and approved by the Board of The Masonic Temple Company for the tearing down of an existing church and excavation. The Masonic ceremony of laying the cornerstone occurring November 17, 1917, with the first Lodge meeting taking place on New Year's Day, 1918.[2] At its peak, the Masonic Temple was home to 38 different Masonic bodies: 27 Craft Lodges, six Chapters (York Rite), two Preceptories (Knights Templar), two Scottish Rite Bodies and Adoniram Council.
Masonic temple in the south side of Chicago. This Englewood temple had been abandoned almost 30 years. There has been recent retail development around 63rd and Halsted. Englewood was once a thriving area with a Sears and many stores, theaters and restaurants. Around the late 60's many stores closed and the area quickly went into decline. Now a Whole Food grocery store and other businesses have been built on what was vacant land
The Masonic Lodge building in Levuka, Fiji, dates from 1913. In July 2000 it was burned by a frenzied mob which had been told by superstitious preachers that it was a center of devil worship.
I don't know how many times I have driven north on the old Pacific Highway and looked longingly down the little side streets of the small Clarence River port of Ulmarra and failed to turn in for a look. Before the new "freeway" was opened not all that long back, the excuse was usually that we were in a pack of reasonably paced traffic and it was just better to keep going. This time around, with the traffic diverted and no such pressures I had managed to plan the route to allow us to drop into this historic riverside village.
What I wasn't bargaining for is that its attractions were well known and a great mob of people and their cars had planted themselves in the middle. Being rather sore and tired, we had a quick look and snapped this elegant and unusual old edifice which had been the Masonic Hall which dates from 1906. It later became known as the Picture Theatre and movies were shown weekly. It also more or less seems to have become the community hall hosting concerts, balls and dances. These days it's privately owned and well kept. I don't know if it still gets used for gatherings or is a large house. Well, just another place to revisit at a slower pace.