Henry Knox Field Lodge No. 349, A.F. & A.M.

                                                             Alexandria, Virginia

In 1923, a group of Masons residing in the Town of Potomac, which has since been absorbed by Alexandria, conceived the idea of forming a new Masonic Lodge in their community. This number included several members of the two Lodges in Alexandria, together with other Masons who held membership in Lodges in various parts of the country, who were residents of the community. A dispensation was granted in 1924, and the Grand Lodge of Virginia issued a charter on February 12, 1925 signed by Most Worshipful Charles H. Callahan, Grand Master of Masons in Virginia.

The new Lodge chose as its name that of Henry Knox Field, paying tribute to the memory of that illustrious Mason who had served as Grand Master of Masons in Virginia in 1917, and died in office.

In 1924, while the Lodge was working under dispensation, Brother Kirwan brought up the matter of building a home for the Lodge, and out of this suggestion Potomac Realty Corporation was formed, which purchased the lot on which the building now stands. During the years that followed, Brother Kirwan kept the project before the members, and it was principally through his efforts that possession of the lot was retained during the drying “depression years.” Many times he advanced his own funds to pay taxes and fees connected with the ownership of the lot, thus keeping alive in the minds of the members his dream of a Lodge building.

The building was dedicated on April 19, 1947, in the little town of Potomac, in Arlington County. Year by year it has grown, until in the early 1960's, the membership was more than eleven hundred.

In 1980, the Lodge began the annual celebration of Henry Knox Fields birthday with a banquet and wreath laying ceremony.

In 1987, with the membership in decline and building maintenance taking more of the Lodge funds, the Lodge sold its building and moved to the modern Alexandria Scottish Rite.