The war ends; the Masons come straight back

The same week Japan surrendered, two Masonic lodges were already booking degree work at “Reagan Masonic Temple,” Eleventh and Harvard. The fraternity’s return to its old address was not slow or sentimental; it was immediate.

That May, George Howard Jenkins, a longtime bank clerk and Reagan Lodge member, died at his home in the building’s apartments. The lodge conducted his graveside rites. The fraternity kept faith with its brothers at the old address for decades after losing the deed.