List of Masonic buildings in the United States
List of Masonic buildings in the United States identifies notable Masonic buildings in the United States. These have served as meeting halls by Masonic lodges, Grand Lodges or other Masonic bodies. Many of the buildings were built to house Masonic meetings and ritual activities in their upper floors, and to provide commercial space below. Many of the buildings listed have received landmark status, either by being listed on the National Register of Historic Places or listed by various State or City preservation agencies.
In 2019, more than 390 Masonic buildings are listed here.
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Maine
Building | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description | |
1 | Masonic Hall | 1894 built 1986 NRHP-listed | 313-321 Water St. | Augusta, Maine | Renaissance-style, designed by John Spofford | |
2 | Masonic Temple | 1877 built 1973 NRHP-listed | High St. | Belfast, Maine | ||
3 | Masonic Hall | 1916 built | Guilford, Maine | Built 1916. Demolished in 2000. | ||
4 | Kora Temple | 1908 built 1975 NRHP-listed | 11 Sabattus St. | Lewiston, Maine | Designed by George M. Coombs in Exotic Revival and/or Moorish style | |
5 | Masonic Temple | 1911 built 1982 NRHP-listed | Portland, Maine |
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Massachusetts
has been the site of several significant Masonic buildings.- In 1830, the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts bought land on Tremont Street to build a Masonic Temple. A building was constructed on the site and dedicated in 1832, but initially could not be owned by the Grand Lodge because of legal limitations on the value of real estate that the Grand Lodge could hold. Masons used the Masonic Temple for meetings until 1858, when the building was sold to the U.S. government for use as a courthouse. The building lent its name to the Temple School, established by Bronson Alcott, which was housed in the building during the 1830s. The 1832 Masonic Temple, located at the corner of a street named Temple Place, also held a concert hall and was the site of many public lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, including his reading of The Transcendentalist in 1842. Following its sale to the government, it housed a courthouse until 1885.
- Beginning in 1859, Boston's Masons occupied a building at the corner of Tremont and Boylston Streets that was known as Winthrop House, and that was rededicated as "Freemason's Hall" in December 1859. That building was destroyed by fire in April 1864. A grand new Masonic Temple building, designed by Merrill G. Wheelock, was built in its place on the same site and dedicated in 1867.
Building | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description | |
4 | Lynn Masonic Hall | 1880 built 1979 NRHP-listed | Lynn, Massachusetts | A Gothic-style building from 1880, NRHP-listed | ||
5 | Masonic Building | 1896 built 1986 CP | 296 to 304 Walnut Street & 456 to 460 Newtonville Avenue | Newton, Massachusetts | Part of Newtonville Historic District, which is NRHP-listed | |
6 | Masonic Temple | 1926 built 1989 NRHP-listed | 1170 Hancock St. | Quincy, Massachusetts | Classical Revival building from 1926 | |
7 | Masonic Block | 1984 NRHP-listed | 600-622 Main Street | Reading, Massachusetts | Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals and other architecture | |
8 | Masonic Temple | 1923 built 1983 NRHP-listed | 339-341 State Street | Springfield, Massachusetts | Classical Revival | |
9 | Masonic Temple | 1914 built 1980 NRHP-listed | Ionic Ave. | Worcester, Massachusetts | Classical Revival | |
10 | Masonic Hospital | Shrewsbury, Massachusetts | Former Whittall estate, Juniper Hall, donated to the Masons in 1927, in what is now Prospect Park. Ownership taken by the town of Shrewsbury in 1976; demolished in 1979. |
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Ohio
Building | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description | |
1 | Times Building-Lodge Hall | 1902 built 1989 NRHP-listed | 19 E. Waterloo St. | Canal Winchester, Ohio | ||
2 | Cleveland Masonic Temple | 1920 built 2001 NRHP-listed | 3615 Euclid Ave. | Cleveland, Ohio | Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements architecture | |
3 | Masonic Temple | 1899 built 1997 NRHP-listed | 34 N. 4th St. | Columbus, Ohio | Classical Revival | |
4 | York Lodge No. 563 | 1915 built 1984 NRHP-listed | 1276 N. High St. | Columbus, Ohio | Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Italian Renaissance architecture | |
5 | York Rite Masonic Temple | 1925 built 1983 NRHP-listed | 861-867 Mt. Vernon Ave. | Columbus, Ohio | Also known as Pythian Temple and James Pythian Theater, a Colonial Revival building from 1925, NRHP-listed | |
6 | Dayton Masonic Center | 1925-1928 built 1986 CP-NRHP-listed | 573 W. Riverview Avenue | Dayton, Ohio | Classical Revival | |
7 | Masonic Temple | 1890 built 1995 NRHP-listed | 422 Broadway | East Liverpool, Ohio | Built 1916 in Colonial Revival style. as a private residence, it was purchased by the Masons in 1910 and converted into a meeting hall. Also known as the "Godwin-Knowles House". | |
8 | Masonic Temple | 1880-84 built 1974 NRHP-listed | 409 West Main Street | Kent, Ohio | An Italianate house, originally the home of the Marvin Kent family, it was purchased by the local Masonic lodge in 1923 and converted into a meeting hall. | |
9 | Masonic Temple | 1909 built 1985 NRHP-listed | N. Main St. | Mechanicsburg, Ohio | Bungalow/Craftsman | |
10 | Medina Masonic Temple and Medina Theater | 1924 built 2002 NRHP-listed | 120 N. Elmwood Ave. and 139 W. Liberty St. | Medina, Ohio | Greek Revival | |
11 | Niles Masonic Temple | 1923 built 2006 NRHP-listed | 22 W. Church St. | Niles, Ohio | Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals | |
12 | Masonic Temple | 1889 built | 302 Wayne St. | Sandusky, Ohio | Romanesque; also known as "Science Lodge No. 50 F & A M", determined NRHP-eligible | |
13 | Masonic Temple | 1927 built 2008 NRHP-listed | 125 W. High St. | Springfield, Ohio | NRHP-listed | |
14 | Masonic Temple Building | 1870 built 1979 NRHP-listed | Main St., S. of Liberty St. | Vermilion, Ohio | Italianate | |
14.5 | New England Lodge | 1820 built 1973 NRHP-listed | 634 N. High St. | Worthington, Ohio | Asserted in 1999 to be the oldest Masonic lodge west of the Allegheny Mountains which has been in continuous Masonic use. Plans in 2016 were to convert it to condominiums, though retaining space for a Masonic museum and offices. | |
15 | Masonic Temple | 1909 built 1997 NRHP-listed | 223–227 Wick Ave. | Youngstown, Ohio | Colonial Revival In January 2016 it was announced that the Masons could no longer afford the building and that the building was to be sold. | |
16 | Masonic Lodge No. 472 | 1884 built 2000 NRHP-listed | 18 Commercial St. | Zaleski, Ohio | Italianate | |
16.5 | Lafayette Lodge No. 79 | 1857 built 1978 NRHP-listed | 333 Market St. | Zanesville, Ohio | ||
17 | Masonic Temple Building | 1903 built 1990 NRHP-listed | 36-42 N. Fourth St. | Zanesville, Ohio | Second Renaissance Revival. |
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Vermont
Building | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description | |
1 | Masonic Temple | 1929 | 2 Academy Street | Barre, Vermont | Neo-Federal entrance and Masonic temple added in 1929 to pree-existing Greek Revival house. Included in Barre Downtown Historic District. | |
2 | Burlington Masonic Temple | 1897 built 1974 NRHP CP-listed | 1, 3 and 5 Church Street corner of Pearl Street | Burlington, Vermont | Richardsonian Romanesque; included in Head of Church Street Historic District. | |
3 | Masonic Temple | Elm & S. Main | Northfield, Vermont |