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Iowa City Lodge

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Identity

Abbreviation
unknown
Jurisdiction
US-IA · Iowa
Also operates
unknown
Naming style
AF&AM
Claimed tradition
craft lodge under Grand Lodge of Iowa, A.F. & A.M.
Founded
unknown
Website
http://iowacity4.org/

Public contacts

email: iowacitylodge@gmail.com personal published by org
phone: 319-333-9385 public organizational
phone: (319) 359-7169 public organizational

Addresses

physical Iowa City, IA, 52240-1628
mailing Iowa City, IA
physical Iowa City, IA, 52240-1628
meeting Iowa City, IA, 52240

Officers (public)

unknown

Website

Website liveness

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

Current site
Iowa City No. 4 - Home HTTP 200
Iowa City Lodge HTTP unchecked
Former sites
none recorded
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/iowacity4

Public-web footprint

Public-web footprint

Rank #20 worldwide · score 85.7 · high live siteTravel signal only. Footprint ≠ members. Dead official URLs do not earn the live-site points.

SignalCount / sourcePts
Own official websiteyes18.0
Pages absorbed810.1
Distinct hosts38.0
Social accounts26.0
HTTP 200 / 404 (site-like)4 / 08.0
Last verified (site-like)2026-09-20 (0d)6.0
Description corpus chars17149.6
Officers listed publicly00.0
Meeting schedule publishedyes6.0
Hall / addressphysical · geocoded8.0
Proceedings / sketches / assertions46.0
Parent GL membership prior (sourced only)none in corpus0.0

formula v1.1 · computed 2026-09-20 · join key lodge UUID 41f960c1-5d05-52f0-8ff4-206b80c19bf9

Lodge lifecycle

Number
4
Status
active
Grand Lodge
Grand Lodge of Iowa, A.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 Iowa, A.F. & A.M.charteredIowa City LodgeunknownunknownSourceautomatically_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.

official website · primary
Iowa City No. 4 - Home

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

official website · primary
Iowa City Lodge

first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified unknown

Sourced descriptions

extracted excerptLodgeLocator — Grand Lodge of Iowa chapters

Iowa City Lodge No. 4 listed under Grand Lodge of Iowa, A.F. & A.M. as active at 312 E College St, Iowa City, IA, 52240-1628 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.

historical sketch

Iowa City No. 4 - History of Iowa City No. 4 Iowa City Masonic Lodge No. 4 History of Masonry Iowa City No. 4 History of Iowa City No. 4 Iowa City No. 4 Today Join Iowa City No. 4 Members Only Mobirise History Of Iowa City No. 4 Brief History of Iowa City No. 4 Masons first met in Iowa City January 13, 1842, at Dr.William Reynolds’ School Room where First Christian Church now sits along Iowa Avenue east of Old Capitol. They received dispensation October 10, 1842, from the Masonic Grand Lodge of Missouri to confer degrees, received Missouri charter #63 in October 1843, hosted formation of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Iowa and received the #4 charter from it after its officers were installed January 8, 1844. The lodge in Burlington received charter #1, Muscatine #2 and Dubuque #3, in the same order they had received Missouri charters ahead of Iowa City.  Iowa City Masonic Lodge first met under its current Number 4 charter January 9, 1844, with Dr. Reynolds sitting as Master. Other officers included William B. Snyder, territorial superintendent of Old Capitol; Chauncey Swan, an inn keeper; James R. Hartsock, post master and subsequent Grand Master; and Charles Nagle, a businessman.  During its more than a century and a half of existence, Iowa City Lodge has met regularly in 15 locations, plus others for special-purpose meetings, as at Old Capitol and the annual outdoor lodge at Amana. All regular locations are in central Iowa City as the Secrest Building on the northea

Assertions

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