List of Masonic buildings in the United States

Many of the buildings were built to house Masonic meetings and ritual activities in their upper floors, and to provide commercial space below.

The Temple also held a concert hall[75] and was the site of many public lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, including his reading of The Transcendentalist in 1842.

Beginning in 1859, Boston's Masons occupied a building at the corner of Tremont and Boylston Streets that was known as Winthrop House, and that was rededicated as "Freemason's Hall" in December 1859.

A grand new Masonic Temple building, designed by Merrill G. Wheelock, was built in its place on the same site and dedicated in 1867.

[74][78][79] The second temple was also destroyed by fire in 1895[80] and replaced at the same location with a building designed by George F. Loring and Sanford Phipps, dedicated on December 27, 1899.