Erie Masonic Temple

Pennsylvania has the largest membership of Masonic Grand Lodges in the United States, with approximately 100,000 current members. As a reflection of the prominent role that Freemasonry has played in the history of the commonwealth, many of its cities are home to a historic or architecturally significant Masonic Temple building. These buildings are as diverse as the cities in which they sit....
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Masonic Temple, Butler, Pa.

The Keystone State Library Association, established in 1901, selected the Butler County seat of Butler in western Pennsylvania for its fifteenth annual meeting in October 1915, and one of the reasons is obvious. Librarians would convene for their first session in the community’s grand Masonic Temple, completed four years earlier. Butler Lodge Number 272, Free and Accepted Masons (F&AM),...
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