Universal Lodge No. 14

Historic building in Maryland, USA

United States historic place


Universal Lodge No. 14
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Universal Lodge No. 14, July 2009
38°58′54″N 76°29′49″W / 38.98167°N 76.49694°W / 38.98167; -76.49694
Area	less than one acre
Built	1865 (1865)
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	08001101^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 26, 2008

Universal Lodge No. 14 is a historic building located in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It was constructed about 1880 as a private dwelling, and substantially expanded in the mid-1950s. It is a two-story gable-front frame and concrete-block building with a brick veneer facade and a gable finished in stucco. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.^[1]

The Prince Hall Masonic Lodge for which it is named was founded in 1865 by a group of African American civilian employees of the U.S. Naval Academy. The lodge purchased the building in the 1940s, and substantially renovated it for use as a meeting hall over the next decade.^[2]

In 2019 a $200,000 grant was secured to repair the exterior of the building.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Dr Anna DeJesus and Jeffrey Henderson (December 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Universal Lodge No. 14" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
^ "Annapolis receives $200,000 grant to preserve the exterior of historic Clay Street building". Capital Gazette. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2022-07-13.