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stables for Mrs. H. G. Curry, built at Magnolia, Massachusetts in 1905 and destroyed by fire in recent years.
An early H. A. Moyer Carriage >
The couple finally settled in Maude Ward's hometown, Syracuse, in 1908. Her father,
Harvey A. Moyer, the manufacturer of carriages and the Moyer automobile, was a prominent
businessman and social figure whose influence probably helped Ward obtain his earliest
commissions. Soon, however, Ward was flourishing on his own. In 1914, after designing
residences for more than ninety clients, Ward built his home and studio, Lemoyne Manor, on
land across from his father-in-law's estate, Moyerdale (now home to Breese Chevrolet), in
Liverpool, a suburb of Syracuse. There the Wards lived, worked, and raised their only child,
Peggy. Remnants of Ward's Lemoyne Manor can still be seen near the entrance of the large
motel-restaurant complex of the same name constructed around the original building after
World War II.
Two-thirds of Ward's houses are in the City of Syracuse, most of them on scattered sites, but some concentrated in certain areas
developed in the 1920's, notably those of the Scottholm, Sedgwick Farms, Berkeley Park, and Onondaga Park. Occasionally Ward
designed a house in such other upstate towns as Ilion, Watertown, Gouverneur, Baldwinsville, Liverpool, and Manlius. In 1912, he
was called upon by three Oneida Community Ltd. executives to design their new residences in Sherrill. Ward presented his ideas to
his clients in very attractive pen and watercolor sketches. These architectural renderings and perspectives are drawn with great skill
and command attention in their own right as works of art. Ward had a virtuoso talent for producing these studies quickly and in great
numbers.
Though Ward mainly designed private residences, he occasionally worked in other genres. In Syracuse, he designed an addition to
the Henry Schmeer Box Factory in 1911 (since demolished) and "Sherbrook," an apartment building for George Wilson on Walnut
Avenue in 1914. He also extensively remodeled several historic houses and their interiors in Syracuse, most notably a Greek revival
house of the 1830's at Salt Springs Road and East Genesee Street for Harry Burhans in 1916, and an Italianate house on Highland
Avenue for Donald Dey in 1919. In 1916, he remodeled the Romanesque St. Paul's Paris House, built in Oswego in 1871
(demolished in 1978). Ward's last known design, dated 1926, was for Dr. F. K. Holzworth in Rochester. In that year his career
ended abruptly. He became ill and was hospitalized for six years before he died.
Fayetteville Lodge No. 578
Fayetteville, New York
24 Jun 1865 –
Dispensation: 28 Mar 1865, under dispensation from the Grand Lodge of the State of New York, dated 1 Mar 1865, a group of
Master Masons held a meeting in the George C. Gilson rooms. Meetings were held every Tuesday evening at 7 pm for twelve
months a year. The initiation fee was $20 and the dues were $2 per year, paid quarterly. If a Brother was one year in arrears, he
was dropped from the rolls. No member was permitted to speak by twice upon the same subject. As a Masonic duty, every member
was to report all unmasonic conduct of other members “especially the vices of intemperance and profanity.” These rules were
contained in the first by-laws of the Lodge.
Some of the Brothers who signed the by-laws in 1865 were probably relatives of the natives of Fayetteville and Manlius:
Barney, George
Baton, L. H.
Beard, Huntington
Bostwick, J. Weston
Burham, Albert
Crocker, E. J.
Darling, Francis A.
Charter:
Eaton, James D.
Eberling, Fred
Gage, Henry
Hale, Charles E.
Knapp, H. A.
Nichols, H. A.
Nichols, Thomas D.
Pratt, Henry S.
Reals, Fred
Reals, George
Taylor, I. A.
Terwilliger, John
Tibbetts, Frank M.
24 Jun 1865: Hiram Wood, Master; Henry S. Pratt, Senior Warden and Dr. Frank M. Byington, Junior Warden.
Meeting Places: The Lodge held meetings in rooms rented from George Gilson until 18 May 1866, when it was decided to
procure Brother (Dr.) Frank M. Byington’s rooms in connection with the Good Templars, and “that a tax of $3.00 be ordered upon
each member for the purpose of paying expenses of the same.” On 2 Oct 1866 Bro. Byington reported that $500 was pledged to
secure and furnish rooms above his store to be used as the Lodge rooms. On 15 Jan 1867 it was decided to refuse the Good
Templars request to use the Lodge rooms for another year. No details were given as to why this action was taken.
The Lodge later removed it meetings to rented quarters in the Howard Block in Limestone Plaza.
8 Mar 1826 – The building committee reported favorably on the Emma Beard Homestead at 116 East Genesee Street, and the
property was purchased for $15,000. With a down payment of $1,500, a committee was appointed to raise funds to finance the
purchase. The first meeting in the new quarters was held on 7 Sep 1926. This red brick mansion served well for 41 years and also
as the meeting place of Fayetteville Chapter No. 107, Order of the Eastern Star, and Military Court No. 114, Order of the Amaranth.
On 9 Dec 1950 that mortgage was paid off and the mortgage “burned” at the annual meeting of Fayetteville Lodge No. 578. With the
passage of time, the Lodge grew in membership and prospered. The Beard Mansion was reaching a point where it could no longer
be economically maintained. In 1967 a progressive and farsighted membership began work on planning for a new Masonic Temple
on the same site. The Beard Mansion was demolished and construction of the present Temple began.
This new Temple was dedicated on 20 Apr 1968, with larger, more modern facilities. Additional tenet organizations included Mount
Sinai Lodge No. 864 and Syracuse Assembly No. 2, Order of the Rainbow for Girls. A dinner was held on 15 Jun 1975 to “burn” the
mortgage of this new Temple and to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the Lodge.
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