Queens History and Freemasonry / Springfield Gardens Series / Suburban-Queens Village Lodge
November 10, 2026 · By Brete Murphy
In 1981, lodges with roots in Ridgewood and Queens Village consolidated under a combined name. Prosperity joined in 1984. For seventeen years, Suburban-Queens Village formed an intermediate institution in the line that eventually entered Springfield Gardens.
Series Overview · Main Feature: Nine Lodges, One Living History · Suburban Lodge · Queens Village Lodge
Different Beginnings
Suburban Lodge No. 1087 and Queens Village Lodge No. 1046 began in different parts of Queens.
Suburban received its charter in 1928 and was constituted at the Tadmor Masonic Temple in Ridgewood. The contemporary announcement stated that it would continue meeting there.12
Queens Village had been chartered in 1925. Notices from the following decade place its meetings and social events in the Queens Village Community House on Jamaica Avenue.13
Their early histories therefore share a feature: both used meeting space in buildings identified with another institution or with the wider community.
That similarity does not establish identical legal arrangements, finances or membership cultures.
It does, however, distinguish their documented beginnings from those of lodges whose histories centered on a temple-building campaign.
Read the separate predecessor histories:
- Suburban Lodge No. 1087: A Ridgewood Lodge With a Suburban Name
- Queens Village Lodge No. 1046: A Neighborhood Lodge in the Community House
A Later Floral Park Connection
By 1979, a death notice associated Suburban with Floral Park.
Jacob Krauss’s notice identified his affiliation as “Suburban Lodge 1087 (Masonic), Floral Park, N.Y.”4
That description supplies a later geographic reference for a lodge that had begun in Ridgewood.
It does not identify a meeting address, establish a move date or demonstrate that Suburban and Queens Village were already using the same building.
The precise meeting places of both lodges immediately before consolidation remain a question for directories, minutes and contemporary meeting notices.
The evidence supports a Floral Park association for Suburban. It does not, by itself, explain why the two lodges decided to unite.
The 1981 Consolidation
On March 27, 1981, Suburban Lodge No. 1087 and Queens Village Lodge No. 1046 consolidated as Suburban-Queens Village Lodge, according to the author’s compilation of Grand Lodge records.1
The combined lodge retained No. 1046.
Suburban’s name appeared first in the title, while Queens Village’s number continued.
That arrangement preserved an identifier from each predecessor. Without the consolidation agreement or meeting minutes, however, it should not be presented as proof of how the terms were negotiated or how the members understood them.
The documented result is clear: the two previously separate institutions continued through one consolidated lodge.
Shared Rooms, Unresolved Property Questions
Suburban’s documented use of Tadmor and Queens Village’s use of the Community House provide a useful comparison.
Neither predecessor’s history, as presented in the sources cited here, includes a documented temple-building campaign.
That is narrower than establishing that neither ever owned real estate.
It also does not prove that the consolidation involved no property, lease, furnishing, financial or storage questions.
A lodge could have obligations and assets without owning its meeting building.
Those practical details remain outside the present source record.
Prosperity Joins in 1984
Prosperity Lodge No. 962 joined the combined institution in 1984, according to the author’s Grand Lodge compilation.1
Prosperity brought a third neighborhood history into the line.
Its beginnings were in Woodhaven, where a May 1920 newspaper report described its institution in Hillside’s building.5
Like Suburban and Queens Village, Prosperity’s documented early story involved meeting in space associated with another body.
By 1984, the combined institution therefore represented lodges with beginnings in Ridgewood, Queens Village and Woodhaven.
For Prosperity’s separate history, read Prosperity Lodge No. 962: Shared Rooms, a Social Calendar and a Traveling Degree Team.
The Lodge-Number Discrepancy
The supplied Grand Lodge transcription gives the combined lodge No. 962 in the 1984 entry.
It identifies Suburban-Queens Village as No. 1046 when recording the 1998 consolidation with Jamaica.1
That difference requires examination of the original records.
It could reflect a numbering change, a transcription issue or context not preserved in the compilation. The present evidence does not establish which explanation is correct.
For that reason, this article uses the combined name without assigning one number to its entire 1981–1998 existence.
The discrepancy does not erase the consolidation sequence, but it limits how confidently the institution can be numbered at each stage.
Into Jamaica in 1998
On April 24, 1998, Suburban-Queens Village consolidated with Jamaica Lodge No. 546 to form Jamaica-Queens Village Lodge No. 546, according to the author’s compilation.1
The resulting institution retained Jamaica’s number and the Queens Village name.
Suburban and Prosperity no longer appeared in the lodge’s title, but their institutional lines continued through the consolidation.
The resulting name should not be treated as a complete inventory of the predecessor histories it represented.
Nor does the choice of name and number, by itself, explain the members’ negotiations or the legal terms of the union.
The Continuing Line
In 2013, Jamaica-Queens Village consolidated into Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057.1
Suburban-Queens Village was therefore an intermediate institution rather than the endpoint of these histories.
Its sequence can be followed through four stages:
| Year | Institutional change |
|---|---|
| 1981 | Suburban and Queens Village consolidate as Suburban-Queens Village, retaining No. 1046 in the supplied compilation. |
| 1984 | Prosperity joins; the supplied transcription uses No. 962 in this entry. |
| 1998 | Suburban-Queens Village consolidates with Jamaica to form Jamaica-Queens Village No. 546. |
| 2013 | Jamaica-Queens Village consolidates into Springfield Gardens No. 1057. |
Chronology follows the author’s compilation of Grand Lodge records. The 1984/1998 number discrepancy remains unresolved.1
Read the full framework in Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057: Nine Lodges, One Living History.
Seventeen Years Between Longer Histories
Suburban-Queens Village existed under that combined name from 1981 to 1998.
Its seventeen-year span was shorter than the separate histories it brought together.
That makes it easy to overlook when following individual lodge names through a consolidation chart.
Yet it performed a distinct institutional role.
It united Suburban and Queens Village, received Prosperity and then carried those three predecessor lines into Jamaica-Queens Village.
The histories did not move directly from their original neighborhood lodges into Springfield Gardens. Suburban-Queens Village was one of the institutions through which that succession occurred.
Sources and Research Notes
The references below follow the author’s supplied manuscript and research notes. Direct newspaper-clipping URLs were not provided, so the source-note links lead to these citations rather than to speculative archive pages.
- Grand Lodge of New York records, as compiled by Brete Murphy. Source for the predecessor charter dates; March 27, 1981 consolidation; Prosperity’s addition in 1984; April 24, 1998 consolidation with Jamaica; and continuation into Springfield Gardens in 2013. The supplied transcription uses No. 962 in the 1984 entry and No. 1046 in the 1998 entry. Original records are needed to resolve that discrepancy.
2. “Three New Lodges Are Established in Queens by Masons,” Brooklyn Eagle, May 20, 1928, p. 8. Suburban’s constitution at Tadmor and its announced future meeting place.
3. The Chat, April 30, 1927, p. 16; “Masons’ Ladies’ Night in Queens Village,” Times Union, February 14, 1935, p. 18. Queens Village Lodge’s documented use of the Community House.
4. Jacob Krauss death notice, Newsday, July 28, 1979, p. 16. Identifies “Suburban Lodge 1087 (Masonic), Floral Park, N.Y.” The notice does not supply a meeting address or move date.
5. “Prosperity Lodge, F. and A.M., Instituted at Woodhaven,” Brooklyn Daily Times, May 27, 1920, p. 3. Prosperity’s institution in Hillside’s building.
A Note on the Evidence
The consolidation chronology follows the author’s Grand Lodge compilation rather than an independent examination of the original instruments.
The 1984 and 1998 lodge-number references remain to be reconciled.
Documented use of another institution’s building does not establish that a lodge never owned property.
The cited sources do not establish the combined lodge’s meeting address throughout 1981–1998.
The predecessors’ geographic origins do not prove why their members approved consolidation.
A combined name and retained number show the resulting institutional identifiers, not necessarily the intentions behind their selection.
Institutional succession does not establish the present custody of every predecessor’s charter, minutes, furnishings or other artifacts.
Continue the Springfield Gardens Series
The Main Feature
Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057: Nine Lodges, One Living History
Place Suburban-Queens Village within the complete consolidation framework.
The Ridgewood Predecessor
Suburban Lodge No. 1087: A Ridgewood Lodge With a Suburban Name
Follow Suburban from its 1928 beginnings at Tadmor to its later Floral Park association.
The Queens Village Predecessor
Queens Village Lodge No. 1046: A Neighborhood Lodge in the Community House
Explore the lodge whose number continued in the 1981 consolidation.
The 1984 Addition
Prosperity Lodge No. 962: Shared Rooms, a Social Calendar and a Traveling Degree Team
Read the separate history of the third predecessor line.
The Series Overview
Open the Springfield Gardens Lodge Series
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