Guthrie Masonic Lodge History

Guthrie Masonic Lodge #35 is one of the oldest lodges in the Oklahoma Grand Jurisdiction

Guthrie Lodge was issued a dispensation on August 29, 1889 and received their Charter (Guthrie #35) on November 6, 1889. (Grand Lodge of Indian Territory) The first meeting, on September 10, 1889, was on the top floor of a two-story frame building at 207 S. Second Street, a structure long since torn down and almost forgotten in the fleeting years. The building, one of the first erected in Guthrie, housed the Bailey drug store on the ground floor in 1889. Growing in membership and financially, the lodge invested about $15,000 to construct a brick two-story building at 116 E. Oklahoma Avenue, and moved into the new headquarters about 1902. After being located there for 24 years, the lodge moved into the Masonic temple at the corner of S. Broad Street and E. Harrison Avenue. After renovations, the lodge returned the 116 E. Oklahoma Avenue in the mid-1960’s and met there until they sold the building to Byron Berline in October 1994.  Meetings were held at the Oklahoma Grand Lodge building at 102 S. Broad Street until moving to its present location in 2009.

The lodge received a Charter (Guthrie #2) on November 10, 1892 (Grand Lodge of Oklahoma Territory), and Brother A. J. Spengel of Guthrie Lodge #2 was elected as the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Oklahoma Territory.

On February 10, 1909 the Grand Lodge of Indian Territory and the Grand Lodge of Oklahoma Territory consolidated into the M∴ W∴ Grand Lodge of Oklahoma, AF&AM.

Guthrie Lodge was returned to No. 35, because numbers were issued by original Charter dates of all lodges for the consolidation.

The lodge now has a long term lease with Guthrie Chapter #12, Order of the Eastern Star at 1419 N. Walnut. Please feel free to join us for food and fellowship every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 6:30 pm.