Carson Valley Lodge #33
Minden, NVThe Masons of the Carson Valley (Minden and Gardnerville, south of Carson City), which began as a community in about 1885, began to speak of forming a Masonic Lodge in the area early in 1914, and their efforts resulted in the chartering of Carson Valley Lodge #33 in June of that year.
The first meetings were held in the Odd Fellows Hall (as were many of the early lodges in Nevada), and the Lodge flourished - nearly doubling in membership in its first year!
In 1921, the Lodge built the edifice pictured below, with commercial space on the ground floor and Lodge rooms above, according to tradition. However, "fate reared its ugly head", and with the economic decline in 1932, the membership of the Lodge had declined to the point where they could no longer meet their obligations and the property fell into foreclosure. With the debt and responsibility for the building no longer hanging around the neck of the Lodge, it rebounded and flourished, and arrangements were made with the new owners of the building to allow the Lodge to continue to meet in the upper chambers - as they do today.
Carson Valley Lodge #33 meets in this proud building - their door is at the right of this picture.
This building sits on the east side of U.S. Highway 395 in downtown Gardnerville, NV.
The cornerstone of Carson Valley Lodge #33 was laid by the Grand Lodge in 1919.
