Hundreds of Freemasons jammed into a Queens lodge in 1941 during Louis Eickhoff‘s initiation into one of the world’s oldest fraternal groups. During the ceremony, a Masonic leader asked, “In whom do ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X SARATOGA SPRINGS — Rising Sun Lodge No. 103 stands serenely on the corner of North Broadway and ...

Cultural folklore and ancient organizations continue to be intrinsically woven into our modern day society. Look no further than the Freemasons, whose enigmatic history dates back to the Middle Ages ...

Every building in San Francisco is full of secrets, but there are perhaps none with quite as many as the Van Ness street staple better known now as the Regency Center. The four-story complex located ...

In Los Feliz, across from a 7-Eleven on North Vermont Avenue, a few dozen men in their early 20s to late 80s share a dinner behind closed doors. Some wear full tuxedos with bow ties and jeweled cuff ...

For Bob Welch and his fellow Freemasons of Holland Lodge No. 1, April 21 represents an especially rich date in history. April 21, 1836, is the anniversary of the Texan victory at the Battle of San ...

In the 1832 election, a third party candidate emerged to run for president. This was a first in U.S. presidential elections. Among the traditional parties, the Democrats ran Andrew Jackson and the ...

The history of the Lakeland Freemasons is a long one, dating all the way back to the late 1800s. More recently, the Freemasons fraternal order moved to its current building on Massachusetts Avenue in ...

GREENWOOD -- The history of Freemasons runs deep in the River Valley and across Arkansas, the South Sebastian County Historical Society was told last week. Society members invited Freemason Gary ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Hidden in plain sight at 813 First Ave. SE are world-class collections of books, artifacts and art. The Iowa Masonic Library and its museums are not advertised on a sign out front.

The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World. By John Dickie.PublicAffairs; 496 pages; $32. Hodder & Stoughton; £25. SINCE THEY first came to prominence in the alehouses of 18th-century London, ...

A man has been arrested on charges he spray-painted the “Faith, Hope and Charity” Freemasons’ mural at Main Street and Jackson Avenue in downtown Naperville late Monday night. Carlos Marcos, 43, of ...