Let's Tour The Grand Lodge (Ticket Required)

We have the opportunity to tour The Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of North Carolina. Tickets are required for the tour and are $14.95. Tickets, select 10am-11am.

The lodge "occupies a dignified mid-century building that has quietly served as the administrative heart of North Carolina Freemasonry for nearly seven decades. Dating to 1771, its offices were housed in the Masonic Temple Building on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh, a ten-story 1907 tower that was Raleigh's first skyscraper. By the 1950s, however, the decision was made to sell the downtown property and build a new administrative home. The commission went to Leslie Boney, the Wilmington-based architect whose firm designed a remarkable number of North Carolina's institutional buildings. Boney drew the plans in 1955, and the building was dedicated in 1958. His firm, founded in 1922, continues today as part of LS3P. Architecturally, the Grand Lodge is a handsome example of the mid-century institutional Modernism, intended to last. Inside, the building contains the Grand Lodge's administrative offices, its extensive library, the archives (which hold minutes and records stretching back to the eighteenth century), and a small museum of North Carolina Masonic artifacts."

Remember to update your RSVP if your plans change and you can no longer attend, at least 24 hours before the start time.