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Located at 112 Crosby Street, the Richmond Hill Masonic Hall was built by Richmond Lodge #23 G.R.C. in 1959 and is a large building, with a spacious sanctuary on the main floor, and a comfortable dining room on the lower floor. The ante-room outside the door of the Lodge Sanctuary is not just your ordinary assembly area, placed there to accommodate the Tyler and the Masons who are waiting to enter the meeting room. It is a veritable warehouse of memorabilia, documents, photographs and other Masonic Treasures.
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A picture of the original Richmond Hill Lodge building is on display on the north wall of the room. The wood-burning stove that was used to heat that building is also on display, painted up and polished, and just as pristine as it was on the day it was installed in the old building. The Lodge Banner, a little faded after all these years but carefully preserved in a large glassed frame, graces the west wall of the room. In the corner, next to that banner and high up on the south wall, is a picture of the man believed to have been the first Worshipful Master of the Lodge, V. W. Bro. Col.David Bridgeford. He is there, looking down on all the Masons who have come to visit his Lodge over the years. |
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Early records of the Lodge are incomplete, but V. W. Bro. Bridgeford is thought to have been Lodge Master on 12 occasions between the years 1824 and 1861. The photos shown here are just two of the many pictures and exceptional objects to be found in this remarkable storehouse.Anyone planning to visit this Masonic building should set aside a few moments to see these historic and carefully prepared displays. |
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