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.
Woodhull Lodge No. 982: Jamaica’s Offshoot in Eastern Queens
Organized in Jamaica’s Masonic Temple in 1921, Woodhull Lodge No. 982 brought together bankers, political figures, professionals and tradesmen from eastern Queens. Explore its beginnings as Jamaica Lodge’s offshoot, its Revolutionary-era namesake, members’ lives and the consolidations that carried its institutional line 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.
Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057: Nine Lodges, One Living History
Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057 began with a Masonic club determined to build a neighborhood hall. Through successive consolidations, it became the meeting point of nine lodge histories reaching Jamaica, Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, Queens Village and Ridgewood. Follow the building campaigns, shared rooms and mergers that shaped a continuing Queens institution now meeting in Rockville Centre.
Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057: The Lodge That Inherited Queens Histories
Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057 grew from a Masonic club that set out to build a neighborhood hall in 1920. Through later consolidations, it inherited lodge histories reaching Jamaica, Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, Queens Village and Ridgewood. Follow the building campaigns, shared meeting rooms and mergers that shaped a continuing Queens institution now meeting in Rockville Centre.