Holland Lodge No.1 AF & AM

This is a beautiful building with tons of character and history. Open to visits but I’m not exactly sure when. To be one, ask one.
First Masonic Lodge in Texas organized in March 1835 at Brazoria. Set to work December 27, 1835 under dispensation of Grand Lodge of Louisiana for whose 1835 – 37 Grand Master, John Henry Holland this Lodge was named. Labors were interrupted in February 1836 in Texas War for Independence when Lodge and records were destroyed by Mexican army during March of General Urrea to join forces with dictator Santa Anna. The Charter however was then in saddlebags if Dr. Anson Jones, Texas patriot and first Worshipful Master of Holland Lodge, who carried the sacred document into battle and victory at San Jacinto, April 21, 1836.
In November 1837, Holland Lodge was reopened in the Republic of Texas Capitol (at site of present Rice Hotel) Houston. On December 20, 1837, Holland Lodge No. 36 (The original designation under Grand Lodge of Louisiana) met with the only other Masonic bodies then existent in Texas — Milam Lodge No. 40 of Nacogdoches and McFarland Lodge No. 41 of San Augustine — and organized The Grand Lodge of the Republic of Texas. Dr. Anson Jones, of Holland Lodge was elected first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Republic of Texas and Holland Lodge was assigned the No. 1 designation.