Masonic Hall in Niagara-on-the-Lake
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white photo of Masonic Hall (the Old Stone Barracks) at the corner of Prideaux and King Streets in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. The first meeting of the first parliament of Upper Canada may have taken place at this site, used at that time for meetings of the Lodge, the public and church. This structure is alleged to have been built from the rubble of the town after the War of 1812. The new building, erected on the site in 1816, was used as a store, a school and military barracks until the 1870s when the freemasons bought the barracks and refitted it, thus returning to their original site. It continues to house the first Masonic Lodge in Upper Canada.
- Notes
- Negatives from Pat Arrington
- Inscriptions
- Reverse:
"Stone barracks (Masonic Lodge)
Prideaux at King St. NOTL" - Date of Original
- Summer 1977
- Dimensions
-
Width: 17.5 cm
Height: 12.5 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- NPL00007
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
-
-
Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.255895396406 Longitude: -79.0700992123031
-
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Niagara-on-the-Lake Public LibraryEmail:localhistory@notlpl.org
Website
Agency street/mail address:10 Anderson Lane P.O. Box 430
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON L0S 1J0
905-468-2023
