DENVER, COLORADO
For some years prior to the organization of Park Hill Lodge, that section of Denver known as Park Hill had been one of the most attractive, newest and rapidly expanding better residential areas in the city of Denver. The new residents commenced to have mutual interests as home owners and as Masons. On August 5, 1915, a meeting was held in the Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church, and before it adjourned, a motion had been put and carried that a Masonic lodge be established in Park Hill. It is interesting to note that the Lodge issued a resolution thanking the church for the Lodge’s treatment, this being done at its last stated communication to be held in the church, November 19,1925.
A dispensation was granted on January 20, 1916. On September 16, 1916 the lodge was chartered and was constituted on October 5, 1916 by Robert M. Simons, P.G.M., and associate officers. At this meeting there were 7 other Past Grand Masters present. There were 105 charter members at that time, while on November 30,1960 the membership stood at 1,159.
The first meeting of the Board of Trustees of what is now the Building Association was held on November 28, 1921. On January 6, 1953 the Treasurer’s Report showed the lodge to be free and clear of all outstanding Building Fund obligations.
The period in between these two dates was one of continuous struggles, of disappointments, of narrow escapes from insolvency. The end result is one of the handsomest Lodge rooms in the entire state in a beautiful and modernized temple.
Park Hill Lodge is justly proud of its late Brother Grover C. Olinger, who was Master of the Lodge in 1934 and Grand Master of Masons in Colorado in 1946.
