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Original Lodges &
Current and Intermediate Lodges They Were Consolidated Into

information compiled by Paul M. Bessel - paul@bessel.org - from various sources

Originally-Chartered Lodges (and year of DC Charter) Intermediate Lodges (Lodges that were created as the result of Consolidations, but that no longer exist) and year of DC Charter Currently-Chartered Lodges and/or Current Lodges into which Other Lodges were Consolidated (or what happened to Lodges that are no longer in existence)
Federal Lodge #1 (1811)   Federal Lodge #1
Brooke Lodge #2 (1811)   extinct since 1833
Columbia Lodge #3 (1811)   Justice-Columbia Lodge #3
Naval Lodge #4 (1811)   Naval Lodge #4
Potomac Lodge #5 (1811)   Potomac Lodge #5
Union Lodge #6 (1811)   charter surrendered 1835
Lebanon Lodge #7 (1811)   William R. Singleton-Hope-Lebanon Lodge #7
Evangelical Lodge #8 (1824)   extinct since 1843
The New Jerusalem Lodge #9 (1824)   Federal Lodge #1
Hiram Lodge #10 (1827)   Hiram-Takoma Lodge #10
St. John's Lodge #11 (1845)   St. John's Lodge #11
National Lodge #12 (1846)   National-Stansbury-Dawson Lodge #12
California Lodge #13 (1848)   became California Lodge #1 under the Grand Lodge of California
Washington Centennial Lodge #14 (1852)   Washington Daylight Lodge #14
Benjamin B. French Lodge #15 (1853)   Benjamin B. French Lodge #15
Dawson Lodge #16 (1847)   National-Stansbury-Dawson Lodge #12
Harmony Lodge #17 (1863)   Harmony Lodge #17
Acacia Lodge #18 (1863)   Benjamin B. French Lodge #15
La Fayette Lodge #19 (1963)   Lafayette-Dupont Lodge #19
Hope Lodge #20 (1867)   William R. Singleton-Hope-Lebanon Lodge #7
Anacostia Lodge #21 (1868)   Anacostia Lodge #21
George C. Whiting Lodge #22 (1868)   Potomac Lodge #5
Pentalpha Lodge #23 (1869)   Osiris-Pentalpha Lodge #23
Stansbury Lodge #24 (1873)   National-Stansbury-Dawson Lodge #12
Arminius Lodge #25 (1876)   Arminius Lodge #25
Osiris Lodge #26 (1890)   Osiris-Pentalpha Lodge #23
Myron M. Parker Lodge #27 (1891)   Potomac Lodge #5
King David Lodge #28 (1893)   Naval Lodge #4
Takoma Lodge #29 (1895)   Hiram-Tacoma Lodge #10
William R. Singleton Lodge #30 (1901)   William R. Singleton-Hope-Lebanon Lodge #7
King Solomon Lodge #31 (1905)   Washington Daylight Lodge #14
Temple Lodge #32 (1907)   Temple-Noyes-Cathedral Lodge #32
Mount Pleasant Lodge #33 (1910)   Albert Pike Lodge #33
East Gate Lodge #34 (1912)   East Gate Lodge #34
Joppa Lodge #35 (1920)   Joppa Lodge #35
Albert Pike Lodge #36 (1920)   Albert Pike Lodge #33
Congress Lodge #37 (1921)   Harmony Lodge #7
Joseph H. Milans Lodge #38 (1922)   Potomac Lodge #5
Warren G. Harding Lodge #39 (1923)   Washington Daylight Lodge #14
Cathedral Lodge #40 (1923)   Temple-Noyes-Cathedral Lodge #32
Trinity Lodge #41 (1924)   Osiris-Pentalpha Lodge #23
Chevy Chase Lodge #42 (1924)   Hiram-Takoma Lodge #10
Brightwood Lodge #43 (1924)   Washington Daylight Lodge #14
Theodore Roosevelt Lodge #44 (1925)   Potomac Lodge #5
Justice Lodge #46 (1926)   Justice-Columbia Lodge #3
Petworth Lodge #47 (1927)   Petworth Lodge #47
Barristers Lodge #48 (1928)   William R. Singleton-Hope-Lebanon Lodge #7
Semper Paratus Lodge #49 (1934)   Harmony Lodge #17
Benjamin Franklin Lodge #50 (1937)   Samuel Gompers-Benjamin Franklin Lodge #45
Sojourners' Lodge #51 (1937)   Potomac Lodge #5
Fort Dupont Lodge #52 (1947)   Lafayette-Dupont Lodge #19
Convass B. Dean Memorial Lodge (1965)   Convass B. Dean Memorial Lodge
Pythagoras Lodge of Research (1967)   Pythagoras Lodge of Research
Mehr Lodge #90 (1990)   Mehr Lodge #90
Sojourner Kilwinning Lodge #1798 (1992)   Sojourner Kilwinning Lodge #1798
Alianza Fraternal Americana Lodge #92 (1992)   Alianza Fraternal Americana Lodge #92
La France Lodge #93 (1992)   La France Lodge #93
Hayastan Lodge #94 (1994)   Hayastan Lodge #94
Magnolia Lodge #53 (1996)   Magnolia Lodge #53
Lodge of the Nine Muses #1776 (1997)   Lodge of the Nine Muses #1776
Massis Lodge #99 (1999)   Massis Lodge #99
Nur Lodge #2000 (2000)   Nur Lodge #2000
Fraternity Lodge #54 (2000)   Fraternity Lodge #54
General George C. Marshall Lodge #55 (2000)   charter abrogated 2004
Fiat Lux Lodge #1717 (2001)   Fiat Lux Lodge #1717
Italia Lodge, #2001 (2001)   Italia Lodge #2001
  Warren G. Harding-Brightwood Lodge #43 (1982) William R. Singleton-Hope-Lebanon Lodge #7
  Pentalpha-Trinity Lodge #23 (1984) Washington Daylight Lodge #14
  William R. Singleton-Hope Lodge #20 (1985) Washington Daylight Lodge #14
  Solomon-Harding-Brightwood Lodge #43 (1989) Osiris-Pentalpha Lodge #23

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

Chronology of Charters and Consolidations

Chart of Charters and Consolidations


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