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Masonic Temple (Dayton Masonic Center) History

April 30, 2025 By Andrew Walsh Leave a Comment

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I recently wrote about the former Oddfellows Hall downtown, but there's another fraternal organization in the area with a much larger membership, the Freemasons. And compared to Oddfellows temple that is unrecognizable from what it once was, Dayton's Masonic Temple (now … [Read more...] about Masonic Temple (Dayton Masonic Center) History

Filed Under: Historical Dayton Tagged With: Architecture, Clubs and Societies, Freemasons, Grafton Hill, John W Stoddard, Masonic Temple, Preservation

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