Lodge 846 - Buffalo, New York
N 42° 51.177 W 078° 48.451
17T E 679134 N 4746816
No longer used as a lodge, but it is still called The Lodge Auction House.
Waymark Code: WM2Z87
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 01/14/2008
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This building was scheduled to be razed in2002 for a parking lot!
The elegant building, a work of architect William Rea, is of the beaux arts style with four substantial roman columns and a elaborate cornice greeting visitors approaching from Cazenovia Street. Straight through the circular foyer is the main hall with a stage, bar and kitchen. At the top of a winding staircase off the foyer is a hall with a 24-foot ceiling supported by matching columns and centered by a handsome reverse-painted light fixture in the design of the globe. On one of the walls is an original painting of the most famous mason, George Washington, painted by Ralph Stuart, an artist employed by the old Buffalo Pottery company. An elaborately carved, 14-foot Kittinger library table, made especially for the room, is against one wall. Through a small hallway, visitors enter a grand hall of light blue and gold that had been used for the Masons' ceremonies. Taken from the link.
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