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The General Grand Chapter headquarters, the International Temple, is located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the Perry Belmont Mansion. The mansion was built in 1909 for the purpose of entertaining the guests of Perry Belmont. They included Britain's Prince of Wales in 1919. General Grand Chapter purchased the building ...
General Grand Chapter Many of the Grand Chapters around the world [2] are members of an umbrella group called the General Grand Chapter, founded October 24, 1797. [3] Notable chapters not under this umbrella include the U.S. grand chapters of Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
A lodge room set out for use by a Royal Arch Chapter. The Royal Arch is a degree of Freemasonry. The Royal Arch is present in all main masonic systems, though in some it is worked as part of Craft ('mainstream') Freemasonry, and in others in an appendant ('additional') order. Royal Arch Masons meet as a Chapter; in the Supreme Order of the ...
Perry Belmont, a Freemason, sold the building to the General Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star in 1935 for $100,000, on the condition that the Right Worthy Grand Secretary would live in the building. On May 8, 1973, the Belmont House was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Elizabeth Golcher Butler (October 16, 1831 – July 13, 1906) was a British-born American women's activist and a pioneer in the Order of the Eastern Star. With the establishment of the General Grand Chapter, which would have full control over the ritual, Butler was elected to its highest office, becoming its first Most Worthy Grand Matron (1876 ...
The name was changed to Interstate Conference of Grand Chapters in 1910 and International Conference of Grand Chapters in 1924. This organization was "dismantled" by the Prince Hall Conference of Grand Masters in 1976 and is now known as the Prince Hall Conference of Grand Chapters, Order of the Eastern Star.
t. e. Thomas Smith Webb (October 30, 1771 – July 6, 1819) was the author of Freemason’s Monitor or Illustrations of Masonry, a book which had a significant impact on the development of Masonic Ritual in America, and especially that of the York Rite. [1] Webb has been called the "Founding Father of the York or American Rite" for his efforts ...
The web sites of Grand Chapters in the US and the General Grand Chapter support the idea of Morris being the sole creator, with later help in organizing from Macoy. However, Grand Chapter sites in jurisdictions not under the General Grand Chapter, notably Australia and Germany, support the idea of his trying to create an American version of the ...
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