One of Eureka's largest and most impressive buildings is the
Humboldt Masonic Temple which has been in use at the southeast
corner of Fifth and G Streets for over seventy years. The
ground breaking took place in 1921, the cornerstone was laid
in 1922, and the building was first occupied by the Masons in
1923.
Humboldt Lodge No. 79, Free & Accepted Masons was organized by
six Masons at a meeting in Bucksport on April 25, 1854; a
dispensation
was issued by the Grand Lodge of California on June 30, 1854,
formally establishing the lodge; and it received a charter as
Number 79 in the California Jursidiction on July 1, 1855. It
is the oldest fraternal organization in the county.
The lodge built a two-story building in Bucksport where
Bayshore Mall is now located. The new lodge met upstairs and
the Bucksport school was downstairs.
Eureka outgrew Bucksport and March 4, 1858, the lodge moved to
First Street between G and H Streets. Later the new Odd
Fellows Lodge and Humboldt Lodge jointly built a wooden
building at Second and F Streets. Then in 1871 the Masons
built their own building at the southwest corner of Second and
G Streets, where the lodge met until 1923.
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This work originally appeared in The Humboldt Historian Vol.
44 No. 4 Winter 1996 and appears here courtesy of the author -
Lowell S. Mengel II |
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LODGE INFORMATION
517 G Street
Eureka, CA 95501-1017
(707) 443-3079
Stated
Meeting First Thursday
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