Reviews
I have the privilege of being a Mason and love visiting the Grand Lodge. Their beautiful halls have some great history and architecture for anyone who is none Mason but want to visit. I recently took my family here to Celebrate Christmas, having many games for my 5 and 6 years old and seeing Santa. The Grand Lodge is amazing regardless if you are a member or a visitor.
Nice place to talk a free tour and see some beautiful architecture. Some great paintings of past Grand Master's of the Freemasons including famous ones like Paul Revere, Ben Franklin, John Hancock, Joseph Warren and more. Ask about their Fraternal activities for men and the good works they do for charity and local communities around Massachusetts. They do great work with kids and wonders with the Shriners Hospitals that they support.
This majestic edifice is a great place to tour before you embark upon the Freedom Trail. Tours are now available six days a week. Its nine floors above ground never cease to impress. The staff is friendly and informative. No, I can't tell you what's in that room, it's a secret.
An absolutely gorgeous building. It was an honor to have someone take the time to show me around and get the full experience seeing all of the different lodge rooms and to be able to check out the library. If you're a traveler and enjoy this type of architecture I highly suggest visiting.
What a grand old building some of the millwork was amazing
The masons here are pure class and caring!
The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts Masons with several active Lodges operating inside. Brilliant marble floors and columns scattered throughout and well worth a tour. This location is on its 3rd iteration of a Grand Lodge the previous 2-, the first being built in the late 18th Century, having burned down. Tours of the main Lodge Halls replete with old Oil Paintings of Masons past, ie Joseph Warren and Paul Revere and stautues of Ben Franklin and other Revolutionary figures can be viewed throughout the building. Tours are offered morning and afternoon hours most days, perhaps call ahead.
The tour was fantastic and included both large Lodge rooms and an interesting smaller Lodge rooms. There was plenty of historical information provided, including a look at the library and some of the smaller non-Lodge rooms. I would recommend it to candidates to Masonry, to Masons, and to friends or family of Masons. As a Massachusetts resident the history was relevant, but it is also the third oldest Masonic Grand Lodge in the world, and the oldest in the western hemisphere. A tour of this building would be enjoyable to anyone.
If you would like to take a tour of the place make sure you're there at 11 a.m. it's difficult to get one because it seems there was only one person running them. Other than that it's a pretty interesting gig
Beautiful architecture but you will only 've able to see most of it on a tour unless you belong to the fraternity as I do. I highly recommend taking a tour of this historic place. It is not the original building because the original two caught fire before they eventually moved here. A must see.