Perseverance Masonic Lodge No. 4

Status: Closed

Parish: Orleans

Location: New Orleans

From the New Orleans Jazz History Treme/ Vieux Carre/Storyville Walking Tour brochure: Armstrong Park: “The Perseverance Masonic Lodge No. 4 building, positioned at the former corner of St. Claude & Dumain Streets (now in Armstrong Park), is arguably the oldest Masonic structure in the Mississippi Valley, and the existing hall seems to have incorporated large parts of buildings dated as early as 1810. It has a now-rare raised bandstandand was the site of much music.”

1958 photo of the Perseverance Hall’s exterior is in the Ralston Crawford Jazz Photography collection in the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University
http://cdm16313.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16313coll4/id/251/rec/5