Free & Accepted Masons

Yonkers was home to a number of Masonic lodges, numbering at least five in the 1950s. The Masonic Temple, where mason lodges throughout the city of Yonkers held their meetings and conferral of degrees, was built in 1917 and located at 130 S. Broadway in Yonkers. Previously, lodges had met at the Hollywood Inn and the Yonkers Savings Bank building. No longer used by the masons, the building was purchased by St. Joseph Catholic Medical Center. It was scheduled to be demolished in 2008 (source: http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/alert/2008.html#masonic)

- Bryn Mawr Lodge, F. & A.M. - Founded in 1909

- Dunwoodie Lodge No. 863, F. & A.M. - Founded in 1908; moved out of Yonkers to Tuckahoe, N.Y.

- Hawthorne Lodge, F. & A.M. - Founded in 1924

- Nepperhan Lodge No. 736, F. & A.M. - Founded in 1873 and merged in 1978 with Thistle Lodge.

- Rising Star Lodge No. 450, F. & A.M. - First masonic lodge in Yonkers; founded in 1826. Lodge disbanded.

- Thistle Lodge, F. & A.M. - Founded in 1911 by a group of Scottish masons.

- Yonkheer Lodge No. 865, F. & A.M. - Founded in 1908 and merged in 1946.

Lodges located near Yonkers:

- Diamond-Thistle Lodge No. 555, F. & A.M. - Located in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

- Galaxy Lodge No. 902, F. & A.M. - Founded in 1961; located in Tuckahoe, N.Y.

- Hastings Lodge, F. & A.M. - Founded in 1929; located in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.

- Marble Lodge No. 702, F. & A.M. - Located in Tuckahoe, N.Y.

- Van Cortlandt Lodge No. 1034, F. & A.M. - Founded in 1923; located in Tarrytown, N.Y.

(Information found here: http://diamond-thistle.org/images/Nepperhan_Lodge.pdf)