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The Columbus Athenaeum, built as the Masonic Temple, is a historic building in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was constructed as a meeting hall for local area Masonic lodges in 1899, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [1] [2] The building was first designed in 1898 by Yost & Packard, Kremer & Hart and John M ...
The masonic temple is a brick structure facing East Long Street. It has a grand entrance flanked by pilasters made of blonde brick, a brick foundation above-grade, and wood-framed windows with stone lintels and sills. The structure incorporates an earlier building, dating to 1891 or earlier. [2]
The Most Worshipful National Grand Lodge Free & Accepted Ancient York Masons Prince Hall Origin National Compact USA (also referred to as Prince Hall Origin as well as Compact Masons) is a body of Masonry in the United States of America composed predominantly of African American Freemasons. It governs Grand Lodges within the United States and ...
While membership has declined, there’s a rich history of community service that those who run the organization hold dear.
Seven-story Renaissance Revival style building "designed by black architects and built by a black-owned construction firm, it served as the principal social and cultural center for the black community during segregation and housed the state headquarters for the Masons and the Order of the Eastern Star." [4] Included in Fourth Avenue Historic ...
In recognition of the fact that both Grand Lodges are regular in origin and legitimate in nature, now therefore be it resolved that: It is mutually agreed by The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio and The Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio, Inc. on this 20th day of October ...
Masons established their first Columbus presence in the downtown area, but the northern neighborhoods were harder to penetrate; multiple attempts to start a northern lodge were made, but the first efforts failed. York Lodge 563 finally broke this trend, becoming the first northern lodge to last more than a short time.
William V. Banks, founder of the first black-owned and black-operated television station in the United States [86] Parke M. Banta (1891–1970), congressman from Missouri. Raised in Potosi Lodge No. 131 at Potosi, Missouri, about 1916, served as master in 1923. [10] Leedham Bantock (1870–1928), actor, dramatist and early film director [87]