in New York City, United States, is the oldest operating Masonic Lodge under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of New York Free and Accepted Masons.

[1][2] The lodge originally met on Ann Street in New York City.

[3][4][5][6] At the start of the American Revolutionary War in 1775, the members of St. John’s Lodge who supported the Colonies’ independence seized the lodge’s warrant, and fled New York City.

[7] These exiled members held gatherings at the Fishkill Supply Depot in Fishkill, New York, until the end of the war in 1783, when they returned to New York City with the warrant, while many Masons who supported the British fled to Canada.

[8] In 1789, St. John’s was acknowledged as the oldest Masonic lodge in New York State, and was designated as Number 1.