Square and Compass
Now the Glorious Day Has Come, Day of Dedication. Sound the Cymbal, Beat the Drum Over All the Nation: Flash Your Swords, Ye Gallant Knights, Till the Daylight Glistens. Speak, And Springfield All is Yours - - - For Command. It Listens.
Fair the Day and Bright the Air, Nature’s Seemed to Now Declare. She is Tuned and Full in Touch, and Has Smiled Upon Us Much – For the Day Means One Vast Poem – Our Superb Masonic Home.
~Author Unknown, The Springfield Daily Gazette, Springfield, Ohio
Wednesday Evening, October 19, 1892 - VOL. XXVII No. 130
In the early 1840s, The Grand Lodge of Ohio discussed plans to establish a Home for the Aged to care for elderly Masons. In 1888, William B. Hillman led a successful effort to establish the Ohio Masonic Home for the benefit of worthy, distressed Ohio Master Masons, their wives, widows and orphans.
“Nothing so clearly indicates an advanced state of civilization as the provision made …for the care and support of citizens who are so unfortunate as not to be able to provide for their own wants.”
~William B. Hillman
The cornerstone of the Home’s first building, Bushnell, was laid in 1892 and the first resident was admitted in 1895. Since 1895, elderly Masons, their wives and widows have been served by the Home. The Masonic Fraternity is built upon the principles of brotherly love, relief and truth. Thus, it is with pride in our Fraternity and its heritage of brotherly love, relief and truth that we carry out our work every day and continue to partner with the Fraternity in a variety of ways.
Today the Ohio Masonic Home has grown to three campuses: the Springfield Masonic Community campus in Springfield, Ohio; the Western Reserve Masonic Community campus in Medina, Ohio; and the Browning Masonic Community campus in Waterville, Ohio. We have also created a Resource Center to assist the approximately 96,000 Masons and their families living in Ohio in being their partner in supportive connections, products or services to embrace their aging journey.
But did you know we also provide non-care related services to the Fraternity?
Each of our communities provides entertainment venues available to individuals for parties, meetings, award and recognition events, dinners and more. In true Masonic fashion we invite the Fraternity to look to us as a partner for all Fraternal events, not just for the elderly but for all ages. Not only will you enjoy a well-appointed venue, you will also be supporting your local Masonic Community.
To reserve a venue at any of our communities, call 877-881-1623 today!
