Bro. Sir Winston LEONARD Spencer CHURCHILL (1874 – 1965) was initiated in Studholme Lodge #1591, London, England, and Raised in Rosemary Lodge #2851 on March 25 1902. Bro. Churchill was 1st Lord of the Admiralty from 1911 – 1915...
Bro. PAUL REVERE (1735 – 1818), who made the midnight ride to warn the Americans that “The British are Coming” was a member of the Lodge of St. Andrew, Boston, Massachusetts. He was also a founding member of Rising...
THE WORLD’S LARGEST MONUMENT carved by a Freemason is on Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota, U.S.A. It was sculptured by W. Bro. Gutzon Borglum, a Past Master of Howard Lodge #35, New York. The faces of George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt...
MASONIC ISLAND is situated in Lake Metigoshe in the beautiful Turtle Mountains, between the borders of Manitoba and North Dakota. It covers 7.2 acres, and has been the site of international Masonic gatherings since 1906. At the initial meeting, three...
BLACK CREEK MASONIC LODGE, is located in Pioneer Village at Jane St. and Steeles Ave, Toronto, was built in the 1840’s, It’s original site was in Woodbridge, Ontario, and it was moved to it’s present location some 10 years...
The practice of “SQUARING THE LODGE” seems to have originated in the 1730’s when the Lodge, i.e. the Tracing Board, used to be drawn on the floor, usually within a border, which could be erased after the meeting, or...
EDWARD VII, King of England, born 1841, died 1910, was initiated into Masonry by the King of Sweden at Stockholm in 1868. In 1870 he was appointed Honorary Past Grand Master of England, but was installed actual Grand Master...
The Birthplace of the first Grand Lodge of England, in 1717, was in a London tavern called “The Goose and Gridiron”, located in the churchyard of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Although it was demolished in 1894, there is an identically...
The Philadelphia Masonic Temple at 1 North Broad St., in Pennsylvania has seven Lodge rooms, each individually styled in excellent examples of Corinthian, Gothic, Ionic, Italian Renaissance, Norman, Oriental, and Egyptian architecture. The main entrance hall has a beautiful Norman...
HAWAII was discovered by Bro. Captain Cook in 1778. In 1843 its first Masonic Lodge, Lodge le Progres de l’Oceanie #124 was formed under dispensation from the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite of France, which in those days, included...