Litchfield COUNTY · Places & community
Woodbury: inside King Solomon’s Lodge
Everett H. Keeler’s three photographs pair two exterior views with the southeast wall of the lodge room.
Historical focus · April–May 1937
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The story in photographs
April 21, 1937
Northwest elevation
Northwest elevation. April 21, 1937.
Image credit & source
Everett H. Keeler / Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress
No known restrictions on photographs made by the U.S. Government. This selection excludes identified third-party photocopies.
Original source · Reuse termsMay 10, 1937
Northwest elevation
Northwest elevation. May 10, 1937.
Image credit & source
Everett H. Keeler / Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress
No known restrictions on photographs made by the U.S. Government. This selection excludes identified third-party photocopies.
Original source · Reuse termsMay 10, 1937
Southeast wall of lodge room
Southeast wall of lodge room. May 10, 1937.
Image credit & source
Everett H. Keeler / Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress
No known restrictions on photographs made by the U.S. Government. This selection excludes identified third-party photocopies.
Original source · Reuse termsTHE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTOGRAPHS
People, places, and change.
A place of association
The federal archive identifies these photographs as King Solomon’s Lodge on State Route 202 in Woodbury. The survey’s written-data cover calls the property the Masonic Temple. Together those labels provide a starting point for researching a building used by an association, alongside the churches, schools, houses and workplaces found elsewhere in the county archive. The photographs should be cited with survey CT-44 to keep the building’s identity clear. [1]
Two visits in spring
Everett H. Keeler photographed the northwest elevation on April 21, 1937 and returned on May 10 for another northwest view and an interior photograph. The two exterior records are distinct photographs, not different crops of the same scan. Comparing them is a way to study the survey’s changing viewpoint and the building’s relation to the ground around it. [1]
A room preserved on film
The third image records the southeast wall of the lodge room. It gives the archive an interior counterpart to the public-facing exterior, preserving a specific room arrangement at a known date. No ceremony or meeting is documented in these frames. The collection therefore describes the visible architectural record without assigning names, activities or meanings that the captions do not establish. The original archive link accompanies every image for closer examination. [1]
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Building dates and photograph dates are recorded separately. Later photographs are identified in their captions; unknown exposure dates remain unknown. Follow each image’s credit and reuse terms.