Eastrow Garden Club
September 17, 2024 Meeting Field Trip
The Cincinnati Masonic Center:
Our September field will offer a rare and unique opportunity to have a Behind the Scenes Tour of this historic building.
With the ground broken in 1925, cornerstone laid in 1926, and dedicated in 1928 the home of the Ohio Valley Scottish Rite is a building like no other. The 353,132 square foot (twice the size of the Titanic) building features Moorish, Italian-Palazzo, Ionic, English Renaissance, Roman Triumphal, Corinthian, Tudor Gothic, Assyrian, Byzantine and Greco-Roman motifs and architecture.
Our host will be Brian Rust, a Newport resident, past Master of Caliburn 785 and current officer in the Scottish Rite. Brian will provide us with a high-spirited, educational tour and short history of the Freemasons, the oldest and largest fraternal organization in the world. We will get to see secret rooms normally not shown to the public and maybe even learn some secrets! Ohio has one of the largest Masonic memberships in the USA.
This building was recently sold and so this will be one of the last opportunities to explore this magnificent building-there is no other space quite like it.
I hope you will join us on Tuesday, September 17 at 6:30pm. We will start our tour in the building’s lounge Club 32 with beverages and snacks.
You must RSVP to attend this field trip.
Please RSVP by September 14th.
