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Buildings currently used by Masonic bodies[edit]

Australia[edit]

Building Image Location Dates Notes
Artarmon Masonic Centre image Artamon, New South Wales 1923 - 1990 The original 1923 building was sold to a developer in the 1990s and demolished, the replacement building houses several Masonic Lodges.[1] Heritage status?
Sydney Masonic Centre image Sydney, New South Wales 1974 (office tower added 2004) Civic Tower, constructed in 2004 above the preexisting Masonic Centre, was Australia's first building to be fully supported on a central lift core without the use of continuous perimeter columns extending down to footing levels.[2] - Heritage status?
Barcaldine Masonic Temple Barcaldine, Queensland 1900 Also known as Comet Masonic Temple, the building was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.[3]
Blackall Masonic Temple Blackall, Queensland 1908 Added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.[3]
Masonic Temple, Brisbane Brisbane City, Queensland 1928 Added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.[3]
Cairns Masonic Temple Cairns, Queensland 1934 Added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 August 1998.[3]
Charters Towers Masonic Lodge Charters Towers, Queensland 1887 - 1897 Added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.[3]
St George's Masonic Centre, Warwick Warwick, Queensland 1886 Designed by William Wallace. Added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.[3]
Isis Masonic Lodge Childers, Queensland 1897 - 1909 It was designed by F H Faircloth. Added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 April 2000.[3]
Mackay Masonic Temple Mackay, Queensland 1925 Added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 14 August 2009.[3]
Mount Morgan Masonic Temple Mount Morgan, Queensland 1903 Designed by Eaton & Bates and built by Newman Brothers. Added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.[3]
Mount Perry Masonic Lodge Mount Perry, Queensland 1904 Added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.[3]
Rockhampton Masonic Hall Rockhampton, Queensland 1900 Designed by Eaton & Bates and built by Bradshaw & Ricketts. Added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 23 June 2000.[3]
Yangan Masonic Hall Yangan, Queensland 1898 Originally built as Yangan's first School of Arts, acquired by the Yangan Lodge as their meeting place in 1912. Additional construction completed in 1957. Added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.[3]
Freemasons Hall Adelaide, South Australia 1925 In addition to Lodge meeting rooms and offices for the Grand Lodge of South Australia, certain floors are used by the University of Adelaide for lectures and seminars/tutorials.[4][5][6][7]34°55′17″S 138°36′24″E / 34.9215°S 138.6068°E / -34.9215; 138.6068 (Freemasons Hall, Adelaide) Heritage status?
Collingwood United Masonic Temple Abbotsford, Victoria 1929 Currently used by two lodges.[8][9] Heritage status? Self Pub source... Notabillity outside of Freemasonry?
Creswick Masonic Centre [10][11][12] Creswick, Victoria 1890 Several Self Published sources[13][14][15] - Heritage status?
Ivalda Masonic Temple Darebin, Victoria 1923 Proposed for Victorian Heritage Register (Status?) The unusual name of the building is derived from combining the names of the lodges that originally met in it: Ivanhoe, Alphington and Darebin Lodges.
Freemasons Hospital, Melbourne East Melbourne, Victoria 1937 Listed on the Victorian Heritage Database.[16] Originally constructed by the United Grand Lodge of Victoria as a "intermediate" or "community" hospital. The hospital was purchased in 2006 by ING Real Estate in 2006, and leased to Epworth Healthcare. [17]
Masonic Temple (134 Burt Street), constructed 1901-02 in Kalgoorlie-Bolder, Western Australia 1901 Listed on the Western Australia Heritage Register in 1997[18]
Masonic Temple (26 Egan Street) Kalgoorlie-Bolder, Western Australia 1899 Listed on the Western Australia Heritage Register in 1997[19]
Launceston Masonic Centre Launceston, Tasmania 1884 Heritage listing? Only sources are SPS[20]
Name image location dates notes

Bermuda[edit]

Building Image Location Dates Notes
State House, Bermuda St. George's, Bermuda 1620 The oldest stone building in Bermuda, it housed Bermuda's Parliament from 1620 until 1815, when the capital was relocated to Hamilton. Since 1815 it has been leased in perpetuity to a Masonic Lodge.

Canada[edit]

Building Image Location Dates Notes
Masonic Hall Museum 1986 Edmonton, Alberta dates Part of the Fort Edmonton Park living history museum (in the 1905 Street section), The Masonic Museum is a replica of a 1903 Masonic Hall, which originally stood at 100 Avenue and 102 Street (now demolished).[21][22]
Masonic Temple[23] St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador 1894 Designated a Registered Heritage Structure by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador in April 1995. The last Masonic meeting in the temple was held in June 2007. The Masonic Temple has since been sold, and there is no longer any Masonic connection with the building, and no Masonic events are held there. The building is currently owned by Spirit of Newfoundland, and used mainly by artists of all artistic genres, with the core business being dinner and show.[24]
CTV Temple-Masonic Temple Toronto, Ontario 1916 Added to the City of Toronto Heritage Property Inventory in 1974, and designated under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1997. Originally constructed as a Masonic Hall, the building has changed hands a number of times. From the 1960s through the 1990s, it housed a succession of live music clubs. Later in the 1990s, it was the home of Open Mike with Mike Bullard, and was one of CTV Toronto's news bureaus. From March 2006, the building became the broadcast home of the new MTV Canada. On June 17, 2013, the building was purchased by the Info-Tech Research Group. Info-Tech announced that its plans for the building include staging an annual charity rock concert in the auditorium.[25]
Montreal Masonic Memorial Temple Montreal, Quebec 1930 Designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2001, as an example of one of Canada’s most elegant buildings in the Beaux-Arts style.[26][27][28]
Name Image location dates notes

Denmark[edit]

Hong Kong[edit]

  • Zetland Hall is the headquarters of the District Grand Lodge of Hong Kong and the Far East.[29] Hong Kong Freemasons built the first Zetland Hall in 1865 and used it until it was destroyed in an air raid in 1944.[30] In 1949 it was replaced by the second Zetland Hall.

India[edit]

Malaysia[edit]

Spain[edit]

Masonic Temple of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Sri Lanka[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

England[edit]

Freemason's Hall, London

Scotland[edit]

  • The building used by Lodge Mother Kilwinning Kilwinning, Ayrshire, consecrated in 1893, includes a museum of Masonic artefacts. The lodge traces its history to the building of Kilwinning Abbey, circa 1140. The current lodge building replaced a lodge building that was erected in 1779.[41]
  • Pollokshields Burgh Hall in Glasgow, meeting place for Lodge Pollok, Pollokshields No. 772.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Wiland, Eva (August 2012). "Masonic Hall, Artarmon Mainstay". Artarmon Gazette.
  2. ^ Sydney Masonic Centre
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Barcaldine Masonic Temple (entry 600020)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014. Cite error: The named reference "qhr" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Freemasons Hall: Overview".
  5. ^ Adelaide Masonic Centre Museum in the building
  6. ^ Building is used by Adelaide University
  7. ^ [Australian Institute of Architecture about it]
  8. ^ Lodge Devotion 723. "Collingwood United Masonic Temple Trust – A Brief History". Retrieved 15 March 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "Abbotsford Hall Hire".
  10. ^ [1]
  11. ^ Creswick Masonic Hall (Steve Hall photo)
  12. ^ Creswick Havilah Lodge (same?)
  13. ^ [2]
  14. ^ Creswick Masonic Hall (Steve Hall photo)
  15. ^ Creswick Havilah Lodge (same?)
  16. ^ Freemasons Hospital listing on the Victorian Heritage Database
  17. ^ [3]
  18. ^ Masonic Temple, 134 Burt Street, City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder
  19. ^ Masonic Temple, 26 Egan Street, City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder
  20. ^ W. Damien. "Visit to Launceston Masonic Centre, Tasmania". www.lodgedevotion.net.
  21. ^ "Masonic Hall, Alberta, Canada". The Masonic Tourist. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  22. ^ "Early History Of Masonry In Alberta: Fort Edmonton Masonic Museum". Dominion Lodge #117. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  23. ^ Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Structures web page on the building
  24. ^ History of the Masonic Temple by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
  25. ^ http://www.torontosun.com/2012/11/02/torontos-iconic-masonic-temple-is-closing
  26. ^ Masonic Memorial Temple National Historic Site of Canada. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
  27. ^ "THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA COMMEMORATES THE NATIONAL HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MONTREAL MASONIC MEMORIAL TEMPLE". Parks Canada News Release. Government of Canada. 14 October 2006. Retrieved 2009-01-07.
  28. ^ Parks Canada: Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada: Masonic Memorial Temple National Historic Site of Canada, Montréal, Quebec
  29. ^ Information, Zetland Lodge website, accessed July 23, 2010
  30. ^ History of Zetland Hall, Zetland Lodge website, accessed July 23, 2010
  31. ^ Masonic Lodge and Picquet Tank, Secunderabad, British Library, accessed September 1, 2010
  32. ^ Goshamahal Baradari Masonic Hall
  33. ^ History of the Masonic Temple building in Penang, Prince of Wales Lodge Accessed, 1 Sept 2010
  34. ^ "Freemasons' Hall". United Grand Lodge of England. 2002–2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  35. ^ "Masonic Hall". Images of England. English Heritage. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  36. ^ Historic England. "The Cloisters (1102019)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  37. ^ "The Hanging Chapel". Images of England. Retrieved 6 November 2006.
  38. ^ "The Hanging Chapel and a medieval gateway at The Hill [No:33713]". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  39. ^ FS_1574
  40. ^ "Chapel at Rickmansworth Masonic School". Images of England. English Heritage. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  41. ^ Mother Kilwinning History, Mother Kilwinning Lodge website, accessed August 31, 2010
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