LODGE 140

Fountain Lodge approved a petition to organize a second Lodge in Fond du Lac in July 1862. Grand Master Alvin Alden issued a dispensation to form Fond du Lac Lodge the following month. The Grand Lodge granted a charter to Fond du Lac Lodge No. 140 on June 10, 1863. A.H. Boardman was the first Master, and Thomas Weeks and James Perry were the Wardens.


LODGES 26 & 140

The Lodge moved to an upper floor of the First National Bank Building on the Northwest corner of Main St and Forest Avenue in 1873. It then moved to the second floor of a building at the southeast corner of of 3rd and Main in 1889, where electric lights were installed in 1892.

The Lodge constructed a Masonic building in 1906 on the northwest corner of Marr and Sheboygan Streets. The cornerstone ceremony was on May 23rd 1906, and the dedication was on March 20, 1907. Past Master Nathan Giffin served as Grand Master in 1898.