Richmond Hill Masonic Temple: A Lodge Room Upstairs, a Stage Downstairs
Richmond Hill’s Masons broke ground in 1915 with about 150 spades, then held a fundraising fair inside their unfinished temple. Dedicated in 1916, the building combined a public auditorium and stage downstairs with a lodge room above. Its history follows the Eastern Star chapter’s early land purchase, neighborhood fundraising, shared meeting spaces and a public farewell to Queens Scout executive Charles Arthur Worden.
Richmond Hill Lodge No. 892: Four Lodges and the Long Life of a Number
Richmond Hill Lodge No. 892 began in 1911 and built a temple within five years. Its later history joined a lodge rehearsed in a South Ozone Park cellar with institutions rooted in Richmond Hill and Ridgewood. Follow Richmond Hill, Wakefield, Cathedral and Granite through the consolidations that formed Queensboro Lodge—and the 2024 merger that carried their lineage into Anchor-Astoria in College Point.
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.