{
  "slug": "woodbury-king-solomons-lodge",
  "title": "Woodbury: inside King Solomon’s Lodge",
  "towns": [
    "Woodbury"
  ],
  "counties": [
    "Litchfield"
  ],
  "dateRange": "April–May 1937",
  "topic": "Places & community",
  "summary": "Everett H. Keeler’s three photographs pair two exterior views with the southeast wall of the lodge room.",
  "history": [
    {
      "heading": "A place of association",
      "text": "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.",
      "source_ids": [
        "ct0156"
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Two visits in spring",
      "text": "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.",
      "source_ids": [
        "ct0156"
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "A room preserved on film",
      "text": "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.",
      "source_ids": [
        "ct0156"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "date": "April 21, 1937",
      "event": "Keeler makes the first northwest exterior photograph.",
      "source_ids": [
        "ct0156"
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "May 10, 1937",
      "event": "A second northwest view is recorded.",
      "source_ids": [
        "ct0156"
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "May 10, 1937",
      "event": "The southeast wall of the lodge room is photographed.",
      "source_ids": [
        "ct0156"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "ct0156",
      "title": "Library of Congress: King Solomon's Lodge, State Route 202, Woodbury, Litchfield County, CT",
      "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/ct0156/"
    }
  ],
  "images": [
    {
      "id": "cdba9fe52ca615f2f0",
      "image": "/county-images/511d8d9df13c9ed9bb58bfc62cb23774e0123116b671429c2caa165ca6d4071d.jpg",
      "title": "Northwest elevation",
      "alt": "Northwest elevation. April 21, 1937.",
      "date": "April 21, 1937",
      "creator": "Everett H. Keeler",
      "credit": "Everett H. Keeler / Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress",
      "source": "https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.ct0156.photos.023616p/",
      "rights": "No known restrictions on photographs made by the U.S. Government. This selection excludes identified third-party photocopies.",
      "license": "No known restrictions on federal survey photographs",
      "licenseUrl": "https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html",
      "kind": "photograph",
      "later": false,
      "originalCaption": "1.  Historic American Buildings Survey Everett H. Keeler, Photographer April 21, 1937 NORTHWEST ELEVATION - GENERAL VIEW - King Solomon's Lodge, State Route 202, Woodbury, Litchfield County, CT",
      "originalImage": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/habshaer/ct/ct0100/ct0156/photos/023616pv.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "5c4bdbb5961108b25a",
      "image": "/county-images/b0c8849039d243fe6d4e416c69c70778f10aa8c9a01b1ffb94a8b5583f3e8aa8.jpg",
      "title": "Northwest elevation",
      "alt": "Northwest elevation. May 10, 1937.",
      "date": "May 10, 1937",
      "creator": "Everett H. Keeler",
      "credit": "Everett H. Keeler / Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress",
      "source": "https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.ct0156.photos.023619p/",
      "rights": "No known restrictions on photographs made by the U.S. Government. This selection excludes identified third-party photocopies.",
      "license": "No known restrictions on federal survey photographs",
      "licenseUrl": "https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html",
      "kind": "photograph",
      "later": false,
      "originalCaption": "2.  Historic American Buildings Survey Everett H. Keeler, Photographer May 10, 1937 NORTHWEST ELEVATION - King Solomon's Lodge, State Route 202, Woodbury, Litchfield County, CT",
      "originalImage": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/habshaer/ct/ct0100/ct0156/photos/023619pv.jpg"
    },
    {
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      "image": "/county-images/034e7067961b5ffd780945a4233ff36bc1c39be9726f5cfd13a9d559b10801d9.jpg",
      "title": "Southeast wall of lodge room",
      "alt": "Southeast wall of lodge room. May 10, 1937.",
      "date": "May 10, 1937",
      "creator": "Everett H. Keeler",
      "credit": "Everett H. Keeler / Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress",
      "source": "https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.ct0156.photos.023620p/",
      "rights": "No known restrictions on photographs made by the U.S. Government. This selection excludes identified third-party photocopies.",
      "license": "No known restrictions on federal survey photographs",
      "licenseUrl": "https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html",
      "kind": "photograph",
      "later": false,
      "originalCaption": "3.  Historic American Buildings Survey Everett H. Keeler, Photographer May 10, 1937 SOUTHEAST WALL OF LODGE ROOM - King Solomon's Lodge, State Route 202, Woodbury, Litchfield County, CT",
      "originalImage": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/habshaer/ct/ct0100/ct0156/photos/023620pv.jpg"
    }
  ]
}