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The Masonic Temple in Ferndale, California is located at 212 Francis Street, in an Eastlake-Stick style building built in 1891. The Masonic Hall is a contributing property in the Ferndale Main Street Historic District which was added on 10 January 1994 to the National Register of Historic Places.〔 Ferndale Masonic Lodge F & A. M. #193 holds meetings in the building. ==History== Charter member and first worshipful master of the Ferndale Lodge for two terms in 1869 and 1870, Seth Louis Shaw (March 23, 1816 – November 23, 1872), was a lifelong Mason, starting in Nashville, Tennessee, where he became a master Mason and later worshipful master of the same lodge.〔 〕 After traveling to California in the Gold Rush, Shaw was one of the charter members of the Humboldt Lodge in Eureka, California before the founding of the Ferndale Lodge.〔 The Ferndale lodge was chartered on 14 October 1869 by the grand lodge in San Francisco. The earliest meetings of the Ferndale Lodge were held over a store at the corner of Ocean Avenue and Francis Street, now the site of an abandoned gas station.〔 〕 In 1872 Shaw's son, Joseph Armitage Shaw, was worshipful master of the Ferndale Lodge.〔 In 1874 and 1875, the Lodge worked on building a new hall which is now the I.O.O.F. Hall on Main Street.〔 The most disastrous fire in the town's history, on 6 and 7 September 1875, burned both the store and the hall.〔 All that survived was a ledger and one minute book from 1874.〔 The new hall building that was being built, escaped the flames, but in 1876 they found the cost of the new building too much and sold a half-interest to the Odd Fellows.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Masonic Temple (Ferndale, California)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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