Masonic Lodge # 849 - Palestine, IL
Posted by: YoSam.
N 39° 00.094 W 087° 36.763
16S E 446944 N 4317129
Second floor of 204 South Main is occupied by the lodge.
Waymark Code: WMVVR7
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 05/30/2017
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County of lodge: Crawford County
Location of lodge: 204½ S. Main St., upper floor, Palestine
Phone: (618) 586-5487
Meetings: 1st & 3rd MONDAY OF THE MONTH - 7:30 P.M.
Lodge Web
"204-206 South Main Two story red brick Victorian building built ca. 1900. Contributing.
"An entry to the second story separates 204 and 206 South Main. The Masonic Lodge is on the second story of 204 South Main.
"204 South Main, Ritchey's Hardware, (McNair/s Hardware). In 1910 the Sanborn Map shows a hardware repository on the second floor and in 1916 a buggy storeroom was on the upper floor. The building was built c. 1900. McNutt and Musgrave had a hardware store here in the 1940s.
"206 South Main, Etherton and Crout, (Don Magill's Furnishings). (Photograph #24)." ~ NRHP Nomination Form