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Masonic Care Community

A safe and active independent retirement community offering a full spectrum of services

Masonic Medical Research Institute

Empowering science for the development of new diagnostics, treatments and therapies to cure disease.

Chancellor Robert R Livingston Masonic Library

One of the world’s foremost repositories of Masonic books, artifacts, and ephemera

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Brick Purchase to Support Horticultural Center

Secure your Legacy at our Horticultural Center at the Masonic Care Community in Utica, NY. A Brick Purchase will bring us closer to completion and will help with additional improvements.

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Summer Message

Jul 18, 2021 | Grand Master's Message

My Brothers, Summer is in full swing, zoom has faded, picnics and BBQs are here. Something else that is also here? Lodges meeting and having degrees through the summer. I have the pleasure of acknowledging dispensations EVERY WEEK for lodges to continue with their...

Independence Day

Jul 1, 2021 | Grand Master's Message

The meaning of Independence Day has not changed. But this year it has taken on an additional view for those of us in the United States. I am obviously referencing our Independence from the pandemic that enveloped our country but is still raging in other parts of the...

“The Gateway” ~ Painting by Paul Orban, 1930

by Catherine M. Walter | June 28, 2019 | Artifacts | 0 Comments

This painting by Paul Orban, titled The Gateway, was used to illustrate an article by RW H.L. Haywood which was published in The New York Masonic Outlook, May, 1930. RW Haywood was a Masonic author and the editor of the New York Masonic Outlook, 1925-1930. A member...

Painting by Paul Orban, 1930, Obelisk Cornerstone Ceremony

by Catherine M. Walter | March 14, 2019 | Artifacts | 0 Comments

This painting by Paul Orban shows the 1880 cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Egyptian Obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle in Central Park, New York City, NY, and it illustrated the title page of The New York Masonic Outlook, January, 1930. The caption reads: "On...

Magic Lantern Slide Projector and Slides, late-1800s/early-1900s

by Catherine M. Walter | December 18, 2018 | Artifacts | 0 Comments

In May of 2018, the Livingston Masonic Library received a spectacular donation from Fairport Flower City Lodge No. 476, in Fairport, NY: a working "Magic Lantern," or Stereopticon, with a large set of Masonic Lantern Slides.The donation was made In Memory of...

Apron, 1813, Marquis de Lafayette

by Catherine M. Walter | October 26, 2018 | Artifacts | 0 Comments

Within the Artifact Collection of the Livingston Masonic Library of the Grand Lodge of New York, is an apron which is attributed to the Marquis de Lafayette which was published in 1813 by Brothers Desilver & Webster. The apron is made of leather, with a black ink...