The Lawrence-area Freemasons have said their last goodbyes to the 94-year-old building that was the Scottish Rite Temple in downtown Lawrence. Saturday they will hold an open house and a formal ...

A firm commitment was made last January. The 340,000-square-foot building's current owner, a local chapter of the Scottish Rite Masons, has wanted to vacate the building for years. The Masonic ...

In 1945, coincidentally the same year he assumed the office of the Presidency, the organization honored him as 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Mason. Truman described the Freemasons in a 1939 letter to ...