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Six 33rd degree Scottish Rite Masons, prominent citizens of the Town of
Highland Park, organized Highland Park Lodge No. 1150 with 146 charter
members.
The lodge, chartered by The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Texas on December 8, 1921, helped make history when it and five other lodges were set to work and new officers installed on December 30, 1921. Others were Hutchins Lodge No. 1154, Landmark Lodge No. 1168, R. C. Buckner No. 1176, Gibraltar Lodge No. 1179, and Metropolitan Lodge No. 1182. On December 7, 1971, the six lodges held a joint Golden Anniversary meeting at the Scottish Rite Temple, where Highland Park Lodge first met in the Green Room. Early on, when the lodge attempted to meet closer to Highland Park, it faced an immediate dilemma: Here was a new lodge with no money, with a three-year lease on a condemned lodge hall, one that was not masonically sound and with a floor that was to weak to hold up a crowd. Finally on July 1, 1923, the lodge leased the second floor over the Highland Park Pharmacy, at Knox and Travis. This lodge room was designed and built for the lodge by one of its members. It wasn't long before Highland Park Lodge was known as "The Silk Stocking Lodge." Many members are listed among the Who's Who of Dallas. The lodge met at Knox and Travis until August 1975, when the lodge finally owned and occupied its own building at 6137 Sherry Lane in Preston Center. That property, purchased in 1971, was sold about 1990. With part of the money the lodge endowed all of its members. An interesting history sidelight: A lodge brother presented the lodge with a beautiful lot within the Town of Highland Park. Upon investigation, it was found that the Highland Park town code would not permit a Masonic lodge to build on the site. The lodge returned the property to the donor. Later, the Highland Park Town Hall was built on that lot. The lodge prospered, and, in 1957, membership peaked at 890 members. Today two distinguished members of Highland Park Lodge have their names on Dallas area lodges: Thomas B. Hunter in Grand Prairie, and Roy Stanley. Highland Park Lodge supplied substantial numbers of members to the formation of Hillcrest Lodge, John L. DeGrazier Lodge, Thomas B. Hunter Lodge and Roy Stanley Lodge.
Submitted by Bill Reed, Past Master
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