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Visited the old Masonic Lodge restoration project in Salem last weekend
I always thought they were just making a big deal about repointing historic brickwork, but seeing how the original soft lime mortar was crumbling around those hand-molded bricks changed my mind. Have any of you worked with lime mortar on older buildings, and does it really hold up better than modern mix?
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christopher_sullivan12d ago
Does the lodge have any hidden cornerstones or time capsules nobody thought to check?
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kevin_dixon11d ago
Why would nobody have checked them yet? That's the whole point of a cornerstone, you put stuff in there on purpose. Every lodge I've been in has a founding document or a newspaper in the cornerstone. If nobody's looked, that's just lazy record keeping on their part. Time capsules are different, those are usually marked somewhere obvious. But a hidden one without any documentation? That's just a lost box of old junk waiting to be found.
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