Suburban Lodge No. 1087: A Ridgewood Lodge With a Suburban Name
Suburban Lodge No. 1087 began in 1928 with a constitution ceremony at Ridgewood’s Tadmor Masonic Temple. Explore its shared meeting place, officers, degree work and social life, then follow its later Floral Park association and the consolidations that carried its institutional line into Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057.
Queens Village Lodge No. 1046: A Neighborhood Lodge in the Community House
Chartered in 1925, Queens Village Lodge No. 1046 found an early home in the neighborhood’s Community House. Explore its meetings, social events and members’ lives, then follow the consolidations that carried its name through Suburban-Queens Village and Jamaica-Queens Village into Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057.
Prosperity Lodge No. 962: Shared Rooms, a Social Calendar and a Traveling Degree Team
Prosperity Lodge No. 962 began in Hillside’s Woodhaven temple in 1920 with plans to acquire a home of its own. The surviving record instead follows shared rooms, crowded social events and a degree team that traveled across Queens. Explore its early activities, members and the consolidations that carried its lineage into Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057.
Jamaica-Queens Village Lodge No. 546: Keeping the 1864 Number
Formed in 1998, Jamaica-Queens Village Lodge No. 546 united five founding lodge histories under Jamaica’s Civil War-era number. Follow the connections among Jamaica, Woodhull, Queens Village, Suburban and Prosperity, the combined lodge’s Rockville Centre meeting place, and its 2013 consolidation into Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057.
Jamaica Lodge No. 546: A Mother Lodge of Southeast Queens
Chartered in 1864, Jamaica Lodge No. 546 helped neighboring lodges begin, supported Jamaica Hospital and maintained a temple where younger institutions could meet. Follow its history from rented Town Hall rooms to a relocated chapel, Woodhull’s formation and the consolidations that carried Jamaica’s institutional line into Springfield Gardens Lodge in 2013.
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.