Most nights this building hosts two or three people at a time. Once a year we open it to a crowd. Thirty guests, four hours after dark, and every piece of equipment we own.
The lodge was built in the 1820s as the King family home, and Henry Fidelio King raised his family here while serving as village postmaster and town supervisor. It passed to his son Ellis Vial King, who held it until his death in 1917. Dr. George W. Earle bought the property the following year and gave it to the Masons. It has been in continuous use ever since, as a lodge, as a schoolhouse after the village school burned in 1929, and for a time as the town library. One member died here during a meeting in 1980. Two centuries in one building leaves a residue.