Seven Lodges, Thirty-Three Histories: What the Queens Lineages Reveal
Seven present-day Queens District lodges preserve thirty-three constituent lodge histories. This capstone to The Seven Lodges brings their beginnings, consolidations and shared meeting places together, tracing connections from nineteenth-century Manhattan through Queens to a present meeting place in Nassau County.
The Number That Traveled East: Francis Lewis Lodge No. 273 and Its Queens Lineage
Francis Lewis Lodge No. 273 carries the number of a Manhattan lodge chartered in 1852. Follow the histories of Metropolitan, Whitestone, Bayside and Brandeis through three consolidations to a shared meeting place in College Point—and discover how an institutional number connects different generations of New York and Queens.
Three Kinds of Queens: The Six Lodge Histories Behind Advance Service Mizpah
A Manhattan lodge, three institutions from older Queens communities and two lodges of the early twentieth-century expansion came together in Advance Service Mizpah No. 586. Explore what their beginnings, buildings and consolidations reveal about the borough—and how Island City’s number found a continuing home in Advance’s Astoria temple.
The Seven Lodges of the Queens District: Complete Series Guide
Explore the complete guide to the seven lodges of the Queens District. Find each lodge’s institutional history, constituent lodges, temple features and member biographies, then follow the connecting stories that bring their people, places and acts of assistance into one larger Queens history.
The Seven Lodges of the Queens District: Start Here
Seven active lodges make up the Queens District, but their histories reach far beyond seven names. Start here to explore their earlier lodges, consolidations, members and meeting places—and the connecting stories that reveal how these institutions helped shape Queens.
Across the Seven Lodges: Connecting Stories and Series Roadmap
An engineer’s drawings, thirteen founding members, Tuesday-night visitors and shared temples connect the histories of Queens’ seven active Masonic lodges. Start here to follow the people, places and acts of assistance that crossed lodge lines—and discover where the individual series meet.
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.
The Lodge That Commuted: Metropolitan No. 273, 1852–1972
Metropolitan Lodge No. 273 met in Manhattan while its members made homes across Brooklyn, Queens and the suburbs. Follow its changing addresses, family entertainments and Metropolitan Follies revue through the long middle of the 273 line, ending with its 1972 consolidation with Whitestone Lodge.
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.
A Signer’s Name, an Older Number: Francis Lewis Lodge No. 273
In 1986, Metropolitan-Whitestone and Bayside lodges joined under a signer’s name while keeping a number first issued in Manhattan in 1852. Explore the beginnings of Francis Lewis Lodge No. 273, the Brandeis consolidation of 2015 and the histories carried forward by the surviving lodge.
The 273 Line: How a Manhattan Lodge Number Came to Rest in Northeast Queens
A Manhattan lodge number found its way to northeast Queens through a division, three consolidations and generations of members. Start the seven-part series tracing Atwood, Metropolitan, Whitestone, Bayside and Brandeis—the five lodge histories behind Francis Lewis Lodge No. 273.