Building History

Architect Ferdinand Davis (1840-1921), born in ME, moved to Lebanon, NH at age 19. He spent 28 years here, learning furniture-making and then architecture, before moving to Pomona, CA, in 1887 at the age of 47. Davis, who had a number of ancestors on the Mayflower, served in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Civil War, came to Pomona during a period of brisk real estate speculation in Southern CA, where he lived another 34 years. Davis designed this unusual Masonic Lodge later in his life. The building had an eclectic character, having the formal simplicity of the Neo-classicism, but retaining a modified mansard roof and bull's eye windows of the Second Empire.

PCAD id: 22216