LinkLinks Washington Post: In 1922, D.C.’s Masons bought land for a massive temple near Kalorama By Editor On Jul 2, 2022 Last updated Jul 2, 2022 106 Share On July 15, 1922, thousands of men and women (but mostly men) crowded around an ancient oak on a miraculously undeveloped parcel of land at Connecticut and Florida avenues NW. They were Freemasons with their spouses, and they had an audacious plan in mind. They vowed to construct one of the nation’s largest Masonic complexes on nine acres of woods north of Dupont Circle. It was called the Dean tract and it included the Treaty Oak, said by some to have once sheltered George Washington. 106 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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