{"nrhp_refnum":"89000318","name":"Woodbridge Masonic Lodge No. 131","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1040 Augusta St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Woodbridge","county":"San Joaquin County","state":"CA","lat":38.15373924200003,"lon":-121.30188227099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-04-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Masonic meeting hall at 1040 Augusta Street in Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, California, built in 1882 for Woodbridge Masonic Lodge #131 and designed by Stockton architect Charles Beasley.","why_significant":"The nomination cites Criteria A and C. The hall has housed local Masonic organizations for over 100 years, and the Lodge has been active in community welfare. It is also a rare, unusual example of nineteenth-century Gothic Revival styling in Northern California, and the form identifies it as the work of architect Charles Beasley.","narrative":"Woodbridge Masonic Lodge #131 occupies a narrow, tall brick hall at 1040 Augusta Street, built in 1882 to replace an earlier wood-frame meeting hall. Stockton architect Charles Beasley designed it, and N. A. Comstock was the contractor. The facade is a formal, geometric version of the Late Gothic Revival, with a stepped cornice, a trefoil arch bearing a Mason's trowel, a circular window, and cast iron columns on the ground floor. Masonic tools appear in the ornamentation. The building has been altered only modestly: the ground-floor entrances were enclosed in 1967, iron reinforcing rods were added around 1907 after foundation settling, and a cinder block addition was built at the rear in 1967. The second-floor meeting hall remains largely unchanged. The Lodge has used the hall since 1882, and the Order of Eastern Star has met there since 1892. The building is listed for its architecture, its rarity in Northern California, and its long community role.","period_of_significance":"1882-1939","architect_builder":"Beasley, Charles (architect); N. A. Comstock (contractor)","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Continuously in use and maintained for its original purpose as a Masonic meeting hall, with a banquet hall on the first floor and a meeting hall on the second.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.083498-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/89000318.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000318/e55fe3d12e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000318/e55fe3d12e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Steveozone","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodbridge_Masonic_Lodge_No._131_(2).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Steveozone</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodbridge_Masonic_Lodge_No._131_(2).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861435","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbridge_Masonic_Lodge_No._131","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8032419"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-joaquin-county/woodbridge-masonic-lodge-no-131-89000318/"}