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Humboldt Lodge

lodgeactivenot on UGLE listca-79-humboldt-lodge

Identity

Abbreviation
unknown
Jurisdiction
US-CA · California
Also operates
unknown
Naming style
F&AM
Claimed tradition
craft lodge under Grand Lodge of California, F. & A.M.
Founded
unknown
Website
https://humboldtlodge79.org/

Public contacts

email: info@humboldtlodge79.org public organizational
phone: (707) 443-3079 public organizational

Addresses

mailing 517 G St, Eureka, CA, 95502-0197
physical 517 G St, Eureka, CA, 95501-1017

Officers (public)

Junior Deacon: Joe Glass
Junior Steward: Sheyenne Stillinger
Junior Warden: Barry Osser
Marshal: Derek K. Hilson
Secretary: William J. Lambo
Secretary: William J. Lambo P.M.
Senior Deacon: Jessie Hinbaugh
Senior Steward: Damon Ladousier
Senior Warden: J. Reed
Tiler: Michael E. Biesen
Treasurer: Douglas A. Brown

Website

Website liveness

live siteOfficial URLs are kept after they die. Facebook is social, not a replacement site.

Current site
Humboldt Lodge 79 – (707) 443-3079 HTTP 200
Former sites
none recorded
Facebook
none in corpus

Public-web footprint

Public-web footprint

Rank #72 worldwide · score 76.4 · high live siteTravel signal only. Footprint ≠ members. Dead official URLs do not earn the live-site points.

SignalCount / sourcePts
Own official websiteyes18.0
Pages absorbed1512.0
Distinct hosts12.8
Social accounts00.0
HTTP 200 / 404 (site-like)14 / 08.0
Last verified (site-like)2026-09-20 (0d)6.0
Description corpus chars17079.6
Officers listed publicly116.0
Meeting schedule publishedno0.0
Hall / addressphysical · geocoded8.0
Proceedings / sketches / assertions136.0
Parent GL membership prior (sourced only)none in corpus0.0

formula v1.1 · computed 2026-09-20 · join key lodge UUID 97fd1a2e-ca7a-5fe4-bedb-a2545314afe0

Lodge lifecycle

Number
79
Status
active
Grand Lodge
Grand Lodge of California, F. & A.M.
Opened
unknown
Closed
unknown
Successor
unknown
Meetings
unknown

Events

No lifecycle events. Proceedings not extracted yet.

Historical lineage

Charter / constitution / claimed descent. Not recognition.

This body traces through / was chartered by

SourceTargetDatesEvidence
Grand Lodge of California, F. & A.M.charteredHumboldt Lodgeunknown – unknownSourceautomatically_extracted

Current recognition

Directed edges only. Mutual recognition would appear as two edges.

This organization recognizes

None documented.

Organizations that recognize this one

None documented.

Classifications (attributed)

Exact language from a named body. The database has no is_clandestine flag.

None documented.

No attributed classifications.

Other documented relationships

None documented.

Primary-source corpus

URLs collected about this organization, including directory entries and official pages.

directory entry · locator
Humboldt Lodge No. 79 — directory

Public directory listing. Status: active. Close date not stated.

first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified 2026-09-20 · HTTP 200

Sourced descriptions

extracted excerptLodgeLocator entity 6 — Grand Lodge of California, F. & A.M.

Humboldt Lodge No. 79 listed under Grand Lodge of California, F. & A.M. as active at 517 G St, Eureka, CA, 95501-1017 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.

historical sketch

Lodge History – Humboldt Lodge 79 Skip to content Humboldt Lodge 79 Officers Events History Calendar Scholarship Trestle Board Online Payment Lodge History One of Eureka’s largest and most impressive buildings is the Humboldt Masonic Temple which has been in use at the southeast corner of Fifth and G Streets for over seventy years. The ground breaking took place in 1921, the cornerstone was laid in 1922, and the building was first occupied by the Masons in 1923. Humboldt Lodge No. 79, Free & Accepted Masons was organized by six Masons at a meeting in Bucksport on April 25, 1854; a dispensation was issued by the Grand Lodge of California on June 30, 1854, formally establishing the lodge; and it received a charter as Number 79 in the California Jurisdiction on July 1, 1855. It is the oldest fraternal organization in the county.The lodge built a two-story building in Bucksport where Bayshore Mall is now located. The new lodge met upstairs and the Bucksport school was downstairs.Eureka outgrew Bucksport and March 4, 1858, the lodge moved to First Street between G and H Streets. Later the new Odd Fellows Lodge and Humboldt Lodge jointly built a wooden building at Second and F Streets. Then in 1871 the Masons built their own building at the southwest corner of Second and G Streets, where the lodge met until 1923. Membership in Humboldt Lodge grew from 13 in 1855, to 53 in 1871, to 323 in 1910. That year the lodge began to look for sites for a new building large enou

Assertions

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