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About Overland Park Lodge
We take good men and make them better through hope, charity, faternity and brotherly love

 Lodge History

We were chartered on March 1, 1923 in Overland Park, Kansas. Our first quarters were on the second floor of the Conser Bulding at 80th and Santa Fe Drive. We moved to our present location on April 1, 1930.

The lodge is a former Presbyterian Church which we purchased at the beginning of the Great Depression. We burned the mortgage on November 7, 1942. In 1969, we began renovations on our lodge and two years later we had a new Fellowship Hall and Kitchen.

Our philosophy boils down to “we take good men and make them better through faith, hope, charity, fraternity and brotherly love.”

Our lodge is comprised of members aged 21 to 95 averaging around 55 as of last year. But, most of our newer members are under 45 and they make up the bulk of our current leadership. Our members represent all different sorts of careers, religions, nationalities, incomes, and family compositions. We range from college students to retirees and include construction workers, lawyers, truckers, pilots, engineers, recruiters, computer experts, salesmen, clerks, accountants, janitors, and teachers – just to name a few. Some members come to lodge in jeans and workboots while others will attend the same meetings in business suits.

It is not the outer trappings, the career, or religion that we care for when we think of a brother mason. It is the man underneath. We are not a religion, church, or board room. As long as the man desires to better himself as a man and wishes to help brother masons, their causes and allow himself to be helped in return then he may be accepted into the fraternity, never to fall by the wayside.