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Richard Vaux Brotherhood Lodge

lodgeactivenot on UGLE listpa-126-richard-vaux-brotherhood-lodge

Identity

Abbreviation
unknown
Jurisdiction
US-PA · Pennsylvania
Also operates
unknown
Naming style
F&AM
Claimed tradition
craft lodge under Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania
Founded
unknown
Website
https://lodge126.com/

Public contacts

email: lodge126@gmail.com personal published by org
email: secretary@lodge126.com public organizational
email: treasurer@lodge126.com public organizational
email: secretaty@lodge126.com public organizational
email: webmaster@lodge126.com public organizational
email: wm@lodge126.com public organizational
email: sw@lodge126.com public organizational
email: jw@lodge126.com public organizational

Addresses

physical Philadelphia, PA, 19002-2104
mailing Ambler, PA

Officers (public)

Junior Warden: Thomas P. Baggstrom
Secretary: Phillip Skitek Senior Master
Secretary: Robert A. Smoose
Secretary: PM Assistant
Senior Deacon: Brian E. Olivares
Senior Warden: Aiden Le
Treasurer: Appointed Officers
Worshipful Master: William A. Marchesani

Website

Website liveness

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

Current site
Lodge126.com – Richard Vaux Brotherhood Lodge No 126 F&AM HTTP 200
Lodge126.com – Richard Vaux Brotherhood Lodge No 126 F&AM HTTP 200
Former sites
none recorded
Facebook
none in corpus

Public-web footprint

Public-web footprint

Rank #138 worldwide · score 77.3 · high live siteTravel signal only. Footprint ≠ members. Dead official URLs do not earn the live-site points.

SignalCount / sourcePts
Own official websiteyes18.0
Pages absorbed1211.8
Distinct hosts12.8
Social accounts00.0
HTTP 200 / 404 (site-like)11 / 08.0
Last verified (site-like)2026-09-20 (0d)6.0
Description corpus chars18179.6
Officers listed publicly86.0
Meeting schedule publishedyes6.0
Hall / addressphysical3.0
Proceedings / sketches / assertions156.0
Parent GL membership prior (sourced only)none in corpus0.0

formula v1.1 · computed 2026-09-20 · join key lodge UUID 3b8a18ec-9634-5d56-a884-6de93228750c

Lodge lifecycle

Number
126
Status
active
Grand Lodge
Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania
Opened
unknown
Closed
unknown
Successor
unknown
Meetings
Second Monday @ 7:00 P

Events

No lifecycle events. Proceedings not extracted yet.

Historical lineage

Charter / constitution / claimed descent. Not recognition.

This body traces through / was chartered by

SourceTargetDatesEvidence
Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of PennsylvaniacharteredRichard Vaux Brotherhood 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.

lodge page · locator
Officers – Lodge126.com

Secretary-contact harvest 2026-09-20

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

lodge page · locator
Contact Us – Lodge126.com

Secretary-contact harvest 2026-09-20

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

Sourced descriptions

extracted excerptLodgeLocator entity 58 — Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania

Richard Vaux Brotherhood Lodge No. 126 listed under Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania as active at One N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19002-2104 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.

historical sketch

Our History – Lodge126.com Skip to main content Useful Freemason Websites   Grand Lodge of PA Valley of Philadelphia, AASR Royal Arch York Rite Shriners International LuLu Shrine Richard Vaux Brotherhood Lodge No. 126 Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania Celebrating ### years --> Website Main Menu   Home Officers Calendar Join Our Lodge Past Masters Forms Lodge Committees Our History Contact Us Our History The History Of Rising Star Lodge No. 126 The Right Worshipful Grand Master, Bro. J. Henry Williams at the time R.W. Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, in his admirable and illuminating Historical Address, delivered before the Grand Lodge, on the occasion of the celebration of the One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of its Independence, thus describes the Establishment of Freemasonry in Pennsylvania. Chapter I: The Origin of Freemasonry in Pennsylvania "Some historians trace our origin to the remote past; others to the Grand Lodge established at York, England, by Prince Edwin in 926. "On account of limited time, we must begin this recital of our Masonic History with two comparatively recent Grand Lodge of England, from which we derive our authority; the one established in 1717 known as the 'Moderns'; the other formed in 1753 known as the 'Ancients.'" The 'Ancients' were originally seceders from the 'Moderns,' but in 1813 these two reunited and constitute the present Grand Lodge of England. "On June 5, 1730, this Grand L

Assertions

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