Showing posts with label Masonic Block. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Masonic Block. Show all posts

Monday, January 24, 2011

Masonic Hall - 1


Interior of the Masonic Lodge that occuptied the third floor of the building referred to in some pictures as the Masonic Block, located on the southeast corner of Broadway and Hammond Street. 


Note - Regarding the Masonic Lodge ...(from the publication titled "Historical Industrial and Social Record of Peerless Union City Michigan" edited, compiled, and published by Tom F. Robinson in March 1903) reads: Of Union City are most comfortably fixed as regarding lodge rooms. Masonic block was built some thirty years since, and the entire third floor is devoted to the uses of the four Masonic lodges which hold meetings therein. The rooms have been refitted within a few years and include lodge rooms, reception apartments, dinin-room, and kitchens.

Masonic Hall - 2


A second interior postcard of the Masonic Lodge that occuptied the third floor of the building referred to in some pictures as the Masonic Block, located on the southeast corner of Broadway and Hammond Street.


Note - Regarding the Masonic Lodge ...(from the publication titled "Historical Industrial and Social Record of Peerless Union City Michigan" edited, compiled, and published by Tom F. Robinson in March 1903) reads: Of Union City are most comfortably fixed as regarding lodge rooms. Masonic block was built some thirty years since, and the entire third floor is devoted to the uses of the four Masonic lodges which hold meetings therein. The rooms have been refitted within a few years and include lodge rooms, reception apartments, dinin-room, and kitchens.

Murdock and Dickerson Hardware

This postcard is at the corner of Hammond Street and Broadway. Stores identified in the picture are the Murdock & Dickerson Hardware Store, L. D. Balcom Dry Goods, and George F. Minto Company. Would guess the year to be after 1915.

Masonic Block

The picture in this postcard is of the Masonic Block as a reference to the corner building where the Masonic Lodge was located. The picture was taken in the 1910 time frame. Note - Regarding the Masonic Lodge ...(from the publication titled "Historical Industrial and Social Record of Peerless Union City Michigan" edited, compiled, and published by Tom F. Robinson in March 1903) reads: Of Union City are most comfortably fixed as regarding lodge rooms. Masonic block was built some thirty years since, and the entire third floor is devoted to the uses of the four Masonic lodges which hold meetings therein. The rooms have been refitted within a few years and include lodge rooms, reception apartments, dinin-room, and kitchens.