#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
Rollin Dunshee, Worshipful Master of Santa Barbara Lodge, accepted the petition and requested that the Grand Master issue a dispensation for the formation of the new lodge. The new lodge was permitted use of Santa Barbara lodge’s room together with the furniture, jewels, aprons, working tools and other necessary paraphernalia for the holding of the meetings, rent free until July 1, 1876.
The recommendation given by Santa Barbara Lodge stated, among other things, that the establishment of said new Lodge is of manifest propriety, and will conduce to the good of the Order and that this Lodge recommends to the Grand Master the granting of the dispensation prayed for in said petition.” The Most Worshipful John M. Brown, Grand Master, acted favorably upon the petition, and on December 10, 1875, granted a dispensation.
The first meeting of Magnolia Lodge U.D. was held on December 17, 1875, with Brother Charles Jerome Paddock acting as Master. At this meeting a code of By-Laws in the usual form was submitted and approved. The first application for the affiliation in Magnolia Lodge U.D. was received from Brother Benjamin Franklin Thomas, a member of Guadalupe Lodge No. 237, on May 19, 1876, at which time Brother Thomas was elected.
At its Stated Meeting on September 15, 1876, Magnolia Lodge U.D. made request to the Grand Lodge for a Charter; and at the regular Communication October 12, 1876, Grand Lodge issued a Charter and Magnolia Lodge U.D. became Magnolia Lodge No. 242. The Most Worshipful John M. Brown, Grand Master, appointed the Right Worship Eugene Fawcett, Acting Grand Secretary and Past Master of Santa Barbara Lodge no. 192, to act on his behalf and read the Charter inscription in full to the new Lodge.