Does your lodge meet in a building you own, a building you share, or some other place?
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We Excelsior #43, Pensacola Florida, PHA, own ours.Does your lodge meet in a building you own, a building you share, or some other place?
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Our building was owned by a trust, but this was converted to an Incorporated Association in the 1980's where several lodges, Craft and additional, were made members of the association with 1 warrant 1 vote. We (I) changed that a while back so if the number of warrants fall below the number needed to legally operate under the Victorian Associations Act, it became 1 member of a lodge 1 vote to make sure we did not fall foul of the law..
Now, GL owns quite a few buildings, but traditionally they were owned locally by the lodge or lodges that built them.
Why do you ask ?
Right. My lodges have held dinner in a pub - but never tyled in one, however my second lodge has tyled in a private club and there is another lodge which meets in a private club while two I am aware of meet in Community Centres. Oh the whole, Lodge tyled meetings take place in Lodge Buildings - it it is fairly common to see the dinner following in a restaurant or similar venue.Just trying to see if places like taverns (lol) or other non-traditional places are being used by lodges to meet.
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Same for my mother lodge.Our temple is owned by a Masonic temple association, that's the lodges have shares in. We then pay rent to the association.
We have our palace here in Stockholm.
Luckily, most lodges around Sweden have their own building, but some meet in other fraternal order's buildings. Most commonly, though, it's other fraternal orders who hire from the Freemasons.
Beautiful!!!
Stunning !We have our palace here in Stockholm, Bååtska palatset, originally built 1662-1669. In the 1880's, the Swedish Order of Freemason bought the palace and extended it for their purposes. It has been our Order's home since 1877.
Luckily, most lodges around Sweden have their own building, but some meet in other fraternal order's buildings. Most commonly, though, it's other fraternal orders who hire from the Freemasons.
FANTASTIC!!!!!!We have our palace here in Stockholm, Bååtska palatset, originally built 1662-1669. In the 1880's, the Swedish Order of Freemason bought the palace and extended it for their purposes. It has been our Order's home since 1877.
Luckily, most lodges around Sweden have their own building, but some meet in other fraternal order's buildings. Most commonly, though, it's other fraternal orders who hire from the Freemasons.
That is how ours is to but being in the same jurisdiction it seems to be the norm for most lodges in PA. We had our hall association meeting last night before our regular meeting and I got strong armed into being the hall association secretary. The previous guy has been doing it for 34 years... The current secretary for our blue lodge has been trying to talk me into being the secretary for our lodge but I want go to through the chairs first, and now being the hall association secretary I will use that as another reason to not be the blue lodge secretary because I will already be busy enough doing the hall association stuff because we have two tenants that use the bottom half of our building for businesses on either side of our stair case that cuts the building in half.Our Lodge is owned my a "Hall Association" and the Lodge pays rent to the Hall Association. The membership of the Hall Association and the Lodge are identical so in practice the rent is moving money from the right pocket to the left, but technically they are separate entities.