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The Sterling Masonic Temple is a historic Masonic building located at 111-113 West 3rd Street in Sterling, Illinois. The edifice was constructed in 1899–1900 to be the new headquarters for the city's Masonic lodge, as its former meeting place had burned down in 1898. The lodge, formally known as the Rock River Lodge Number 612 A.F.
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge in United States. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).
The first masonic lodge in the state of Illinois was formed in Kaskaskia. The members submitted a petition to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania on 1805. [3] [4] The Grand Lodge of Illinois was constituted on December 11, 1822 with Shadrach Bond serving as the first Grand Master. [5] [6]
Jefferson Masonic Temple is a building completed in 1913 in Jefferson Park, it provides a meeting space for Masonic Lodges and appendant bodies in the 5th Northeastern District of the Grand Lodge Of Illinois: Oriental Lodge #33, Hesperia #411, King Oscar Lodge #855, Paul Revere Lodge #998, and Kelvyn Park-Willing Lodge #1075.
The project at White Pines was originally meant to be the construction of a lodge building. Two hundred men worked on the State Park construction project at one time, in the years 1933-1939, many of them World War I veterans. [4] After the lodge was completed, it was decided to build a restaurant and breezeway onto the lodge building. [4]
Illinois: County: Piatt: Township: Sangamon: Elevation [1] 699 ft (213 m) ZIP code: 61856. GNIS feature ID: 0412501: Lodge is an ... Text is available under the ...
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The Keithsburg Historic District is a historic commercial district encompassing four blocks at the center of Keithsburg, Illinois.The district includes 17 buildings, 15 of which are contributing buildings to its historic nature; all but two of the buildings were historically used for commercial purposes.