Name/Title
Letter: Framed with original White House material. On White House Letterhead. Signed by President Harry Truman (1952)Entry/Object ID
2025.63.1Description
Letter: Framed. On White House Letterhead. To the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Free, Ancient & Accepted Masons, Washington. Signed by President Harry Truman (November 22, 1952). Wood of frame is said to be from White House material. Has a plaque that reads: "Original White House Material Removed 1950."
"Most Worshipful Sir:
Through the good offices of an ambassador for the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, which is Masonically supreme in the Capital of the Nation, I place in your hands a stone taken from the walls of The White House during its just-complete rebuilding.
A sufficient number of these stones, each with a Masonic symbol upon it, was discovered to give to each Grand Lodge in the United States.
These evidences of the number of members of the Craft who built the President's official residence so intimately aligns Freemasonry with the formation and the founding of our Government that I believe your Grand Lodge will cherish this link between the Fraternity and the Government of the Nation, of which The White House is a symbol.
Sincerely and fraternally yours,
Harry Truman"Dimensions
Height
12 inWidth
9-3/4 inDepth
3/4 inCreate Date
September 9, 2025
