![]() ![]() In 1913, the building was named "The Old Masons' Home". To pay for the upkeep, they increased the per-capita tax to $1, of which 50 cents was assigned to the Home, and from then the Home grew and prospered. ![]() Five years later, the Grand Lodge assumed ownership and control of the Home. A school was also established to enable the children living at the home to receive a proper education. In 1892, this home, located on 220 acres outside of Nashville, was completed and opened for habitation. The cost of construction of this housing building was $30,000.00. ![]() The home was designed to offer refuge to Masonic Widows and their children. On August 11, 1886, as a private enterprise, a Charter of Corporation was issued, known as the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home Fund. To HELP, AID and ASSIST within the length of our cable tow, to provide for the necessities of worthy Master Masons, their wives and children, widows and orphans is the most sacred obligation resting on every Lodge and upon every Master Mason worthy of the title which has been conferred upon him. The Masonic Widows and Orphans Fund of Tennessee
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