Grand Lodge of Kentucky

However, the tide of Anti-Masonry after the Morgan Affair caused a reduction to only 1300 members in 37 lodges by 1840.

While being built, the Grand Lodge was blessed to meet with fellow Freemason Marquis de Lafayette in 1825.

Also among the notable events of the building was use as a hospital during a cholera outbreak in 1833, as well as the only two Indian Masons received in Lexington.

The Grand Lodge later founded an Old Masons' Home in Shelbyville in 1901, and a Masonic Widows and Orphans Home in Louisville in 1867, due to the number of widows and orphans caused by the American Civil War.

World War I and the ensuing Spanish influenza outbreak caused overcrowding, and a larger orphan's home was constructed at the present-day location (the Saint Matthews area of Louisville), with residents moving to it in 1926.