300th Anniversary of Freemasonry This year, Freemasonry as it exists today arrived at its 300th Anniversary. On June 24th, 1717, four London Lodges met to create the first Grand Lodge. Long before that, Masonic Lodges had existed, but mostly operated Read More ...

Sponsored by The Square Club of the Fourth Masonic District of Manhattan, Inc., Thursday, June 28, the Livingston Masonic Library will be hosting Brother Tony Crisos and Brother Angel Millar who will present a lecture and concert titled: Mystical Symbolism and Read More ...

Please note: In observance of the Fourth of July: The Library will be closing early on Thursday, July 3, at 6:30 pm, and will be closed all day on Wednesday, July 4, 2018. We apologize for any inconvenience. Happy Fourth Read More ...

Sponsored by: The Square Club of the Fourth Masonic District of Manhattan, Inc., and by Helena Valley Winery, Inc. On Thursday, July 26, the Livingston Masonic Library welcomes Worshipful Brother Graham Brown, Past Provincial Assistant Director of Ceremonies, Sussex. Worshipful Read More ...

In the early- to mid-Nineteenth Century, Freemasonry in New York suffered from an unbroken series of schisms and calamities which at times threatened the existence of the Craft.  From the division of the City and Country Grand Lodges in 1822, through Read More ...

Please note that the Library will be closing Friday, October 31, at 2 pm in honor of Labor Day weekend. We will, of course, also be closed on Labor Day, Monday, September 3. We apologize for any inconvenience. Image: Library Read More ...

Curator Catherine M. Walter will be delivering her third annual Civil War lecture at Museum Village in Monroe, NY on Saturday evening, 7:30 pm. The artifact from the Library's Collections upon which she will lecture this year is a Prisoner Read More ...

The Missing Degree! A lecture exploring the parallel between the Ancient Rites of Passage to Manhood and Freemasonry. Drawing from the inspiration of the Men's Spirituality Movement, we will explore the components that were in the Rites of Passage, how Read More ...

Catherine M. Walter, Curator, will be visiting Fraternity-Dunderberg Lodge No. 942 this coming Tuesday, October 2. She will be bringing the Apron in the artifact collections of the Livingston Masonic Library which is attributed to the Marquis de Lafayette. The Read More ...