The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-23
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES
rRE MASONIC NOME DEDICATION
TINS WEEK WEDNESDAY.

A Notable Masonic Event-Features of the
Exeroises-A Look Mt the Home and Its
Equipments-on of the Most Worthy
Charitable Institutions of the state.
The Masonic home at Walllngford
win be dedicated next Wednesday with
much ceremony and pomp. A suitable
&.program has been prepared. The
National band has been secured and
sthe decorations of the home will be
ON a grand scale. Distinguished Ma
sons from all over the country will be
,present, and 1t is intended to make the
affair a notable Masonic event in Con-
necticut. Extra trains will be provid-
ed at reduced rates. The home was
opened informally Monday, August 5,
The dedicatory services were postpon-
ed till September 25, and the event will
( mark the completion of one of the most
\ worthy charitable institutions of the
state and one that it's projectors have
y worked necessarily a. quarter of a CEN
\ tury to realize. The committee of ar
rangements, headed by H. o. Warner,
grand master, and j. II. Barlow, grand
secretary, announce as follows regard
ing the event, the communication hav-
ing been sent also to the master war
dens of the various lodge f. & A. M:
Masonic Home Dedication at Walling-
ford, September 20, 1895.
The committee having the matter in
charge have the pleasure to announce
that arrangements have been made
with the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad company to accom-
modate the brethren and friends of
the several lodges who may desire to
attend at one and one-third fare for
the round trip.
There will be ample time to attend
the ceremonies and return the same
day.
Tickets, and information as to the
departure of trains, can be obtained
from the agents at the several sta
tions.
The lodges are requested to appear
with aprons and jewels, and special
dispensation is hereby granted for all
lodges to appear in regalia on that
occasion.
H. O. Warner, Grand Master.
Attest: j. Fl. Barlow, Grand Secretary.
The home, which was formerly the
property of the Waliingford branch Of
the ONEIDA community, is located on
the Hartford turnpike about a mile
west of the railroad station and hardly
a better location could have been
found in the state. 1t consists OF -FOUR
dwelling houses and several large
barns, sheds and outbuildings and some
eighty acres of land.
The main building is frame struc-
ture containing forty rooms. To the
right of it is another large building
which will be used as an orphanage
and the dwelling of the superintend-
,ert. The land connected with the nome
is particularly fertile and consists OF
tillable fields, meadows and woodlands
The barns are located about one hum
dred yards to the north of the main
buildings and on the opposite side of
the road. The property includes sew
eral hundred feet of water front on
Community lake, a pretty sheet of
water formed by the damning of the
Quinnipiac river.
The main building, which has been
TnOrOugQly IeIIlOuSIGu anu newly LII
nished. is located back from the street
and about the dooryard are several
evergreen trees and the paths in the
fashion of a score of years ago are lined
on either side with box.
The building is about sixty feet long
and is three stories high, the upper
one being a sort of mansard roof with
dormer windows in the front and rear.
To the right adjoins a two-story ell
and to the left wing extends to the
rear.
a broad piazza extends along the
front of the house. The building is
painted a light color. Broad steps
lead to the main entrance, which opens
into a hall extending through the build
ing. The first door to the right leads
to a reception room, which, by the way,
is the handsomest in the house. 1t
was furnished by old Hiram lodge of
New Haven. Opposite the reception
room is the assembly room, handsome
ly furnished by the Eastern Star lodges
of the state: here years ago the Wall
ingford Community society held their
daily evening meetings. At the end of
the hall is the dining room furnished
by the knights Templar of the state.
The rooms in the ell part on the first
floor will be devoted 10 smoking and
reading rooms.
The two upper floors are devoted to
sleeping apartments chiefly. A hall
way extends through the entire build
ing, the plan of the upper floors is rect
angular and doors opening to the left
and right opening into them. Over
each door there is a transom for venti-
lation, and at each end of the hall there
is large bath and toilet room on each
of the two upper floors. The sleeping
rooms are not large, but are of suffi-
cient size to insure comfort, and each
Of the inmates are to have a room them
selves.
Each of the twenty-nine rooms and
the four annex rooms nave been fur
nished by different lodges in the state.
The furnishings in the house cost So,
500. On the third floor in the front part
of the building is large room, which is
to be used for a sick ward, and was es-
pecially arranged for that purpose by
the former occupants. Tne cellar and
basement are devoted to the heating
apparatus, coal bunkers and storage
purposes. The house has had new
plumbing throughout, and the building
has also been fitted IN throughout with