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Red Brick and White Columns: The Bayside Masonic Temple on Bell Boulevard

Red brick, white Corinthian columns and a design contributed by a lodge member gave Bayside’s 1923 Masonic temple its distinctive presence on Bell Boulevard. Follow the building from cornerstone and dedication through decades of community gatherings, later church ownership and a substantial expansion project reported in 2015.

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Bayside’s Front Parlor: Lodge No. 999 and the Temple on Bell Boulevard

Bayside Lodge No. 999 built its Bell Boulevard temple barely a year after receiving its charter. Over the next six decades, Scouts, charitable groups, neighborhood organizations and visiting Masons filled its rooms. Explore the lodge, its member-architect and the building that became Bayside’s unofficial meeting hall.