Humboldt Lodge #27, Lovelock, Nevada shares its name with yet another Humboldt Lodge - that being in Unionville, NV, and in existence for about ten years, from 1871 until 1881.
Lovelock was settled in 1861 as a crossroads town for the Southern Pacific Railroad, near the banks of the Humboldt River.
In the spring of 1901, the beginnings of Humboldt #27 were laid, with Masonic meetings held in the Lovelock Grammar School - which building later housed the Lodge.
Looking down Main Street in Lovelock, in 1907. The Grammar School, which later became the Lodge, is at the far end of the street.
A closer view of Lovelock Grammar School, circa 1907.
This building was moved to the rear of the lot, to make room for a new County Courthouse when the county was created in 1919. The building was used as the schoolhouse until 1920 when a new Lovelock Elementary School was built, when the Masonic Lodge and Odd Fellows Lodge bought the building and moved it for a second time, across the street to the corner of Elmhurst and Western, where it now stands.
Humboldt Lodge #27, as it appears today.
(Photos courtesy Neil F. Talcott, Humboldt #27)
