Cornerstone ceremony at the Masonic Temple (1866)

ID: 304 ~ Source: Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Reference Image, CC276. ~ Date: November 29, 1866
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Cornerstone ceremony at the Masonic Temple (1866)

Cornerstone being laid for the Masonic Temple on Charles Street near Saratoga Street.

This file appears in: Masonic Grand Lodge

By Johns Hopkins
In 1869, the Freemasons finished a new Grand Lodge for the State of Maryland on Charles Street in downtown Baltimore, with each room more decorated than the last. Originally designed by Edmund G. Lind, who also designed the Peabody Institute in the…