Masonic Lodge

Part of Lot 23 of the Original Town of Perryville was purchased by the Trustees of the Evangelical Lutheran Church School in April 1868, with dimensions of 35 feet along S. Spring St and 100 East North Street. A two-story brick schoolhouse was erected in the summer of 1908 and soon began holding classes, originally teaching in both German and English. The school remained in session until it closed in 1950 after a new school was built on West South Street in Perryville. Masonic Lodge No. 670 was chartered in 1962, and the Order of the Eastern Star was chartered on October 28, 1963. The lodge had once met upstairs in the Dr. Morton building on the square from 1962 to 1969 before moving here. The building and lot were sold to Perryville Lodge No. 670 and dedicated on December 7, 1969. Membership increased from sixty-five in 1969 to seventy-four in 1973 and eighty-eight in 1982, and the building remained occupied by the lodge in 2024. The Masons meet on the second and fourth Thursday of the month except in July and August, and the Eastern Star Chapter No. 46 meets on the second and fourth Tuesday, also dark during July and August.

Perryville, Missouri · United States