Dunton Masonic Temple: A Clubhouse Before a Lodge
Dunton’s Masonic temple began as a clubhouse before Dunton Lodge No. 1017 received its charter. In 1921, members drawn from fifty-nine lodges launched a community hall on Van Wyck Boulevard, building in stages and raising funds through bazaars. Follow its documented beginnings, decades of lodge activity and the unanswered questions surrounding its disappearance.
Richmond Hill Masonic Temple: A Lodge Room Upstairs, a Stage Downstairs
Richmond Hill’s Masons broke ground in 1915 with about 150 spades, then held a fundraising fair inside their unfinished temple. Dedicated in 1916, the building combined a public auditorium and stage downstairs with a lodge room above. Its history follows the Eastern Star chapter’s early land purchase, neighborhood fundraising, shared meeting spaces and a public farewell to Queens Scout executive Charles Arthur Worden.
Richmond Hill Lodge No. 892: Four Lodges and the Long Life of a Number
Richmond Hill Lodge No. 892 began in 1911 and built a temple within five years. Its later history joined a lodge rehearsed in a South Ozone Park cellar with institutions rooted in Richmond Hill and Ridgewood. Follow Richmond Hill, Wakefield, Cathedral and Granite through the consolidations that formed Queensboro Lodge—and the 2024 merger that carried their lineage into Anchor-Astoria in College Point.
Anchor-Astoria Lodge No. 729: Two Villages, One Number
Anchor-Astoria Lodge No. 729 brings together two Queens histories: Anchor’s nineteenth-century beginnings in College Point and Astoria’s formation after the First World War. From a centennial homecoming at the Poppenhusen Institute to the 1985 union and later Queensboro merger, its story follows an active lodge whose temple now serves as a shared home for several distinct Masonic institutions.
Ezra Newton Dodson and Advance Lodge No. 635: The Reporter Who Watched Queens Grow
Reporter Ezra Newton Dodson chronicled a changing Queens while building ties to its Masonic community. Follow his story from Advance Lodge No. 635 in Astoria to the charter rolls of Richmond Hill Lodge.