DC Lodges
Chronology of Charters and Consolidations
information compiled by Paul M. Bessel – paulb’at’bessel.org – from various sources
| Year | Lodges Chartered (and year chartered by the Grand Lodge of D.C.) | Lodges Consolidated or otherwise deleted (and year each was chartered and/or consolidated and/or otherwise deleted) |
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| 1810’s | Federal Lodge #1 (1811) Brooke Lodge #2 (1811) Columbia Lodge #3 (1811) Naval Lodge #4 (1811) Potomac Lodge #5 (1811) Union Lodge #6 (1811) Lebanon Lodge #7 (1811) |
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| 1820’s | Evangelical Lodge #8 (1824) The New Jerusalem Lodge #9 (1824) Hiram Lodge #10 (1827) |
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| 1830’s | Brooke Lodge #2 extinct since 1833 Union Lodge #6 surrendered its charter 1835 |
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| 1840’s | St. John’s Lodge #11 (1845) National Lodge #12 (1846) Dawson Lodge #16 (1847) California Lodge #13 (1848) |
Evangelical Lodge #8 extinct since 1843California Lodge #13 became California Lodge #1 under the Grand Lodge of California, probably in 1848 |
| 1850’s | Washington Centennial Lodge #14 (1852) Benjamin B. French Lodge #15 (1853) |
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| 1860’s | Harmony Lodge #17 (1863) Acacia Lodge #18 (1863) LaFayette Lodge #19 (1863) Hope Lodge #20 (1867) Anacostia Lodge #21 (1868) George C. Whiting Lodge #22 (1868) Pentalpha Lodge #23 (1869) |
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| 1870’s | Stansbury Lodge #24 (1873) Arminius Lodge #25 (1876) |
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| 1880’s | ||
| 1890’s | Osiris Lodge #26 (1890) Myron M. Parker Lodge #27 (1891) King David Lodge #28 (1893) Takoma Lodge #29 (1895) |
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| 1900’s | William R. Singleton Lodge #30 (1901) King Solomon Lodge #31 (1905) Temple Lodge #32 (1907) |
Temple Lodge #32 renamed Temple-Noyes Lodge #32 |
| 1910’s | Mount Pleasant Lodge #33 (1910) East Gate Lodge #34 (1912) |
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| 1920’s | Joppa Lodge #35 (1920) Albert Pike Lodge #36 (1920) Congress Lodge #37 (1921) Joseph H. Milans Lodge #38 (1922) Warren G. Harding Lodge #39 (1923) Cathedral Lodge #40 (1923) Trinity Lodge #41 (1924) Chevy Chase Lodge #42 (1924) Brightwood Lodge #43 (1924) Theodore Roosevelt Lodge #44 (1925) Samuel Gompers Lodge #45 (1925) Justice Lodge #46 (1926) Petworth Lodge #47 (1927) Barristers Lodge #48 (1928) |
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| 1930’s | Semper Paratus Lodge #49 (1934) Benjamin Franklin Lodge #50 (1937) Sojourners’ Lodge #51 (1937) |
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| 1940’s | Fort Dupont Lodge #52 (1947) | |
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| 1960’s | Memorial Lodge (1965) Pythagoras Lodge of Research (1967) |
Memorial Lodge renamed Convass B. Dean Memorial Lodge |
| 1970’s | 1971 Temple-Noyes Lodge #32 and Cathedral Lodge #40 consolidated into Temple-Noyes-Cathedral Lodge #321972 Acacia Lodge consolidated into Benjamin B. French Lodge #161974 Joseph H. Milans Lodge #38 consolidated into Potomac Lodge #51975 Myron M. Parker Lodge #27 consolidated into Potomac Lodge #5 & King David Lodge #28 consolidated into Naval Lodge #4 1977 1978 1979 |
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| 1980’s | 1980 Congress Lodge #37 consolidated into Harmony Lodge #171981 The New Jerusalem Lodge #9 consolidated into Federal Lodge #1 & Chevy Chase Lodge #42 consolidated into Hiram Lodge #101982 Warren G. Harding Lodge #39 and Brightwood Lodge #43 consolidated into Warren G. Harding-Brightwood Lodge #431983 Samuel Gompers Lodge #45 and Benjamin Franklin Lodge #50 consolidated into Samuel Gompers-Benjamin Franklin Lodge #45 1984 1985 1987 1988 1989 |
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| 1990’s | Mehr Lodge #90 (1990)Sojourner Kilwinning Lodge #1798 (1992)
Alianza Fraternal Americana Lodge #92 (1992) La France Lodge #93 (1992) Hayastan Lodge #94 (1994) Magnolia Lodge #53 (1996) Lodge of the Nine Muses #1776 (1997) Massis Lodge #99 (1999) |
1991 Washington Centennial Lodge #14 and Solomon-Harding-Brightwood Lodge #43 consolidated into Washington Daylight Lodge #141995 George C. Whiting Lodge #22 consolidated into Potomac Lodge #51997 National-Stansbury Lodge #12 and Dawson Lodge #16 consolidated into National-Stansbury-Dawson Lodge #121998 Semper Paratus Lodge #49 consolidated into Harmony Lodge #17 1999 |
| 2000’s | Nur Lodge #2000 (2000)Fraternity Lodge #54 (2000)
General George C. Marshall Lodge #55 (2000) Fiat Lux Lodge #1717 (2001) Italia Lodge #2001 Azerbaijan Lodge #2002 Cincinnatus Lodge #76 |
2004 General George C. Marshall Lodge #55 charter abrogated |
Links to similar charts that present D.C. Lodge information in different formats
Current Lodges & Originally-Chartered and Intermediate Lodges that were Consolidated into Current Lodges
Original Lodges & Current and Intermediate Lodges They Were Consolidated Into
Chart of Charters and Consolidations