Property Record
517 E BEAUMONT AVE
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Silver Spring Masonic Lodge No. 337 |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 184863 |
| Location (Address): | 517 E BEAUMONT AVE |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Whitefish Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1964 |
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| Survey Date: | 2011 |
| Historic Use: | social recreational/fraternal hall |
| Architectural Style: | Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | By 1920, many Freemasons lived in Whitefish Bay and belonged to the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Around that time, a lodge was proposed for Whitefish Bay and several meetings were held at the drugstore of Howard Thompson, one of the Whitefish Bay lodge’s founding members. The Silver Spring Lodge 337, Free and Accepted Masons, was officially chartered in 1926. The lodge gathered at the Whitefish Bay Community Church, located at 819 E. Silver Spring Drive. In 1942, the lodge rented the old Christ Episcopal Church located at the southeast corner of Beaumont Avenue and Consaul Place, which that church had been using as a fellowship hall after the current Christ Episcopal Church was completed across the street the prior year. The lodge purchased the old church by 1948. The old church was demolished in 1964, to make way for the current Silver Spring Masonic Lodge No. 337 which was constructed on the same site. The Freemasons still meet in this location to this day. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Building permit records on file at Whitefish Bay Village Hall. Whitefish Bay Historical Research Project. Volume 9. Mimi Bird Collection, Whitefish Bay: Whitefish Bay Public Library |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |