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.
A Manhattan Number, Six Lodge Histories: The Lineage of Harmony No. 241
Harmony Lodge No. 241 brings together six lodge histories, from an institution founded in Manhattan in 1851 to Queens lodges chartered in the 1920s and 1955. Follow their connections through Astoria, Maspeth, Jamaica and northeast Queens, four consolidation events and a succession of shared meeting places.
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.
From Tadmor’s East to the Grand East: Charles W. Froessel
Charles W. Froessel served as Tadmor Lodge’s Master, Grand Master of New York and a judge of the state’s highest court. Follow his parallel Masonic and legal careers, from a Ridgewood ceremony for his five brothers to the constitution of three Queens lodges and the 1964 World’s Fair.
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.
Thirty-Four by Sixty-Two: The Whitestone Masonic Temple on 11th Avenue
Thirty-four feet wide, sixty-two feet long and sixteen feet high: Whitestone’s new lodge room opened in January 1922, before the dining room was finished. Explore the temple’s first winter, its dedication and Eastern Star chapter room, and the continuing Masonic life of the building at 149-39 11th Avenue.
Maspeth, North Shore and Cardozo: Three Lodge Histories Behind Harmony
Maspeth, North Shore and Cardozo lodges form three branches of Harmony Lodge No. 241’s institutional history. Explore the funeral notices, bowling results, charitable activity and meeting-place references that preserve parts of their stories, from Maspeth’s 1928 beginnings to the northeast Queens lodges chartered in 1955.
Rufus King Lodge No. 1091: Merchants, Magistrates and Civic Jamaica
Chartered in 1928, Rufus King Lodge No. 1091 connected merchants, professionals and public officials within Jamaica’s Masonic life. Explore its City Officials’ Night, members such as Harry Gertz, family successions and shared temple, then follow its consolidation history into Harmony Lodge No. 241.
King David Lodge No. 994: Degree Nights, Castle Hall and Masonic Astoria
Newspaper notices trace King David Lodge No. 994 through degree nights at Astoria’s Advance Masonic Temple, social gatherings at the Hotel Astor, new quarters at Castle Hall and a service announced at the Astoria Center of Israel. Follow its neighborhood connections and the consolidations that carried its institutional line into Harmony Lodge No. 241.
Constitution Lodge No. 241: From a Broome Street Loft to Queens
Founded as Oscar Coles Lodge in 1851, Constitution Lodge No. 241 moved through Manhattan meeting halls before consolidating with Maspeth in 1974. Explore its Broome Street beginnings, 1867 renaming, funeral notices and the membership connections that helped carry its institutional history into Queens.
Harmony Lodge No. 241: One Number, Six Lodge Histories
Harmony Lodge No. 241 brings together six lodge histories rooted in Manhattan, Astoria, Maspeth, Jamaica and northeast Queens. Follow their meeting places and consolidations from an 1851 Manhattan beginning to the formation of Harmony in 1990 and its present meeting place in College Point.