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.
Dunton Lodge No. 1017: A Clubhouse First, a Lodge Second
Dunton’s Masons began a clubhouse before Dunton Lodge No. 1017 received its charter in 1923. Explore the relationship between club and lodge, members whose careers spanned banking, policing and the electrical trades, and the later consolidation that carried Dunton’s institutional history 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.
Council Lodge No. 979 and Council-Hillside: Two Histories, One Number
Council Lodge No. 979 was chartered in Richmond Hill in 1921, but its independent history remains sparsely documented in the available research. Follow its 1963 consolidation with Hillside, the combined Council-Hillside Lodge No. 894, and the later union that carried both institutional histories into Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057.
Hillside Lodge No. 894: The Woodhaven Lodge That Outgrew Its Temple
Hillside Lodge No. 894 began with about thirty charter members and reported nearly five hundred by 1920. Its rapid growth transformed a young Woodhaven institution, forced an enlargement of its temple and brought members together for a dinner with name cards. Follow Hillside’s beginnings in Brooklyn Manor, its union with Council Lodge and its lineage’s continuation in Springfield Gardens.
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.
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.
Woodhull Lodge No. 982: The Search for a Temple of Its Own
No temple owned or built by Woodhull Lodge No. 982 has been identified in the available research. Instead, newspaper notices trace its meetings through Jamaica’s Masonic Temple and at least one occasion in Hollis. Explore how shared rooms sustained a Queens lodge—and why its 1985 merger into Jamaica does not resolve every question about where it met.
The Hillside Temple in Woodhaven
Hillside Lodge began building its Woodhaven temple in 1913, using a member’s architectural firm and a neighborhood fundraising campaign. Within seven years, the lodge needed more space. Explore the building’s windowless lodge room, its connection to Arthur E. Wenige’s Astoria work, and its later life as Queens Tabernacle—with Masonic carvings still visible on 96th Street.
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.