The new Freemasons Cultural Center at the Masonic Homes at Elizabethtown opened in March. The new center was named because of the significance of the educational, recreational, cultural, and fraternal activities scheduled in this area.

The Freemasons Cultural Center comprises the new Visitors Center, Three Loaves Café, Masonic Homes Museum, Atrium, staff offices, the Brossman Ballroom, named in honor of donor Bro. Jay G. Brossman, as well as the newly renovated George A. Deike Auditorium and Howard W. White Ballroom.

Interesting Facts about the Freemasons Cultural Center:

In the center of the Atrium is an Acacia tree, which grows approximately one-to-two feet per year. Acacia trees have been recognized as a symbol of immortality.

At the base and top of the grand staircase are gargoyles, which were saved from the Grand Lodge Hall stairways.

The entrance to the Masonic Homes' Museum was originally the exit door where the Freemasons Cultural Center now attaches to Grand Lodge Hall.

Outside the elevator doors on the second floor of the Freemasons Cultural Center are gargoyles that were originally used in the former bowling alley in the ground floor of Grand Lodge Hall.

The conference room on the upper level of the center mimics the wood trusses in Grand Lodge Hall and features the stained glass window with the square and compasses that will be lit at night to serve as a focal point from the parking lots.