#192 F.&A.M.
Table Lodge Dinner. 5:30pm Building tour, 6:00pm Lodge open on 1°, 6:15pm dinner. Celebrating Santa Barbara Lodge’s 140th anniversary.
Santa Barbara Masonic Lodge
16 East Carrillo Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 966-4502
Among the famous masons to have lived in Santa Barbara was World renowned performer Burl Ives (1909-1995). Brother Ives was involved in Freemasonry as a youth, becoming a DeMolay in 1927. Then, after moving to California, he was initiated by Magnolia Lodge 242 (now Santa Barbara 192) in 1977. He later joined the Scottish Rite Bodies of Santa Barbara, California. In recognition of his many services to our Order, he was invested with the Rank of Knight Commander Court of Honor in 1985, coroneted an Inspector General Honorary in 1987, and elected a Grand Cross by The Supreme Council in 1993.
Brother Ives was famous for such folk songs as "Jimmy Crack Corn," as well as for his lead role in the folk singing group "The Weavers," Ives also starred on stage throughout the United States and in Europe, and in such major motion pictures as "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "The Big Country" for which he won an Academy Award. Dorothy Ives, following what she felt would have been the wish of her beloved husband, has had a Grand Cross emblem engraved on her husband's monument. "He loved Freemasonry," she said, "and I know this is what he would have wished." In addition, Mrs. Ives has donated over 200 of the Masonic items collected by Bro. Ives throughout his long career.
By 1990 membership in La Cumbre had dwindled to 165 members most of whom no longer lived in the Santa Barbara area. Under the leadership of the Master George Hall, La Cumbre Lodge consolidated with Magnolia Lodge forming Magnolia-La Cumbre Lodge #242.
The 125th Anniversary celebration of Santa Barbara Lodge 192 in 1993 was helped by Worshipful Master James Thompson.
On January 7, 2006, Magnolia-La Cumbre Lodge 242 consolidated with Santa Barbara Lodge 192. Both lodges made the decision in 2005 to become one united lodge. Thus from the first Santa Barbara Lodge in 1868 the three original separate city Lodges eventually became one and voted to retain the very first name and number.
In addition to the Child ID program, the Santa Barbara lodge annually works a Rib booth at the Spanish Days Fiesta to raise money for Masonic youth charities. The lodge also takes care of a stretch of the 101 Highway in Goleta.
The 150th Anniversary celebration of the very first and only continuous and now consolidated Lodge in the city of Santa Barbara will be held in the year 2018.