Portland
Business Journal
Date: Thursday, February 2,
2012, 12:30pm PST
The membership of the Oregon City Masons has elected to sell its
lodge, reportedly the oldest Masonic Lodge west of the Missouri River.
The 29,700-square-foot lodge is visible from Highway 99 East.
While its future use is unclear, one thing isn't: The building will require
substantial renovations over a century after it was first constructed.
Masons constructed the cast-in-place concrete structure in 1907.
It has served as a city library, morgue and telephone switchboard, among other
municipal activities.
Oregonians have a proud tradition of recycling distinctive
Masonic structures. ThePortland Art Museum http://www.bizjournals.com/ acquired the Portland Masonic Temple in 1991 and completed a $40 million remodel more than a decade later. The
ex-temple, once moated and closed off from downtown, now boasts galleries,
gathering places and offices.
The national Masonic organization chartered Multnomah Lodge #1
in 1848 to serve the Western U.S. between the Pacific Ocean and Rocky Mountains
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