Instead of commonplace designs like flowers or snowflakes, seamstress Celestia A. Milliken decorated her colorful quilt in 1908 with the square and compass and 70 other secret symbols of Freemasonry .

Some say that some of the great American buildings have Masonic symbols incorporated into their architecture. Many of our Founding Fathers, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and John ...

The pyramid and the unblinking eye on the one-dollar bill are Masonic symbols. The Masons and the affiliated Shriners and Eastern Star members have done wonderful things over the generations.

Elgin officials will attempt to preserve the Masonic symbols on a historic city building after they are removed by the church that now owns it. At issue are images of a square, compass and the ...

Elgin City Council members had hoped to preserve the symbols they agreed could be removed from a former Masonic temple-turned-church. But one of those symbols is now in pieces, and the other was ...