The History Of....

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.... this building adjacent to the Camillus factory?

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The home of Charles Sherwood? Denton Bingham? Moritz Mayer? William D. Wallace? Nilo Miori?

Codger
 
Germania Hall? I don't think so. It was located further away, currently McNamara’s Pub at 5600 Newport Rd. McNamara’s is located a few blocks North of the Camillus Cutlery factory which is located at 54 Main Street.
 
I assumed that prominence allowed for the option (privilege) of using ones surname as their street name and that Bingham Pl., Wallace Ave., Kastor Ave., and Sherwood Ave. (all streets in the Village of Camillus) were named for the good men associated with the Company and that these men made their home on said streets (yeah, a stretch, I know) and not on Main St.

Anyhoo...

Per Onondaga County Tax Payment History website the property in question was sold to its current owner in 1997. Previously owner was Sapphire Lodge No. 768.

Sapphire Lodge was a Masonic Lodge that very well might date back to 1908. It probably sits on what was once the Munro lot (and the Munro lot probably is/was the location where the structure in the photo currently sits) as mentioned on pg. 83 here:

http://omdhs.syracusemasons.com/History/Craft Masonry - 1826-1976.pdf

Me thinks that the structure was never associated with Camillus Cutlery Co.
 
History of Camillus, NY
FROM: History of Onondaga County, New York
With Illistrations and Biographical Sketches.
By: Professor W. W. Clayton
Published By D. Mason & Co., Syracust NY 1878
During the summer and fall of 1875, a few brethren of the Masonic Order interested themselves in the formation of a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in this village. After the usual formalities, a dispensation was granted by Grand Master, Elwood E. Thorne, which was delivered on December 31, 1875; a charter was granted by the Grand Lodge on the 13th of June, 1876, and Sapphire Lodge No. 768 was formed with twenty-one charter members, as follows: C. S. Safford, J. H. Lyboult, W. B. Bucklin, S. H. Cook, Jr., T. A. Fish, J. H. Paddock, E. R. Glynn, J. O. Slocum, T. V. Owens, Lafayette Burdick, S. L. Hopkins, Merril Skinner, A. L. Hinsdale, A, R. Hopkins, T. H. Shoens, E. C. Skinner, Cyrus Sweet, E. D. Sherwood, E. D. Larkin, H. D. Burdick, J. Paddock.

First officers: T. H. Shoens, W. M.; J. H. Lyboult, S. W.; T. A. Fish, J. W.; E. D. Sherwood, Treasurer; C. S. Safford, Secretary; C. E. White, S. D.; W. B. Bucklin, J. D.; H. D. Corwin, Tiler.

The Lodge have nicely furnished rooms in the third story of the Harmon Block, fitted up at an expense of nearly $1,000 and are in a prosperous condition, the membership having increased from twenty-one in 1876, to forty-five at the present time.

Officers for 1878: J. Harvey Lyboult, W. M.; C. E. White, S. W.; C. W. Darling, J. W.; E. E. Veeder, Treasurer; C. S. Safford, Secretary; W. B. Bucklin, I. D.; H. Abrams, J. D.; G. T. Downer, S. M. C.; L. Richmond, Jr., J. M. C.; H. T. Corwin, Tiler. Trustees: M. L. Hay, E. D. Sherwood, J. 0. Slocum.
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This is the Masonic Temple. The original building was built in 1908-9. An addition that nearly doubled the size of the structure was added in 1927. This building was used by the Masons for many years and currently houses a stained glass studio and kayak store.

Tom Williams
 
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