Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057: A Queens Lodge Outside Queens
Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057 retains its Queens District affiliation while meeting in Rockville Centre, Nassau County. Its present address brings together institutional histories rooted in nine founding lodges. Explore what continued through consolidation, how members maintained affiliations after moving away, and why the lodge’s original Queens temple and current meeting place tell different stories.
Anchor-Astoria Masonic Temple: Four Lodges, One Door in College Point
Behind a separate entrance at 18-14 College Point Boulevard, four active Masonic lodges share a meeting place above a commercial streetscape. Explore the Anchor-Astoria temple’s visible features, Cornucopia and Harmony’s 2024 arrival, and the distinction between shared rooms and merged lineages—while uncovering the questions that remain about the building’s construction and ownership.
Anchor-Astoria Lodge No. 729: Two Villages, One Number
Anchor-Astoria Lodge No. 729 brings together two Queens histories: Anchor’s nineteenth-century beginnings in College Point and Astoria’s formation after the First World War. From a centennial homecoming at the Poppenhusen Institute to the 1985 union and later Queensboro merger, its story follows an active lodge whose temple now serves as a shared home for several distinct Masonic institutions.