Sleepy Hollow & the Legend
Most lodges carry the square and compasses. Ours carries a galloping ghost as well.
Solomon's Lodge sits at the heart of Washington Irving's country, the hills and hollows of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow that gave the world its most famous ghost story. We have not merely lived alongside that legend. We have taken it as our own.
The Headless Horseman Medallion
In December 2000, the lodge marked the 150th anniversary of its reunion with the Grand Lodge of New York by striking a special medallion, designed by members of the lodge.
It prominently features the Ride of the Headless Horseman, ringed by a Masonic emblem and an unbroken chain.
That unbroken chain speaks to the bonds of brotherhood; the Horseman, to the soil this lodge has stood upon for two centuries. Since 2000, the medallion's design has served as the official emblem of Solomon's Lodge, a mark no other lodge on earth could claim.
The Emblem, Renewed
In 2026 the lodge gave its emblem a new rendering. The Horseman still rides beneath the moon, ringed by the unbroken chain and crowned by the square and compasses, now in full color.
A leap forward into a new age of Freemasonry, made in the year America marks 250 years.
It keeps faith with the medallion of 2000 while looking ahead, the same mark carried into the lodge's third century.
The Tale That Named a Town
Washington Irving lived in this valley and set his 1820 tale, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, in its lanes and woods, unleashing the Headless Horseman, a decapitated Hessian soldier risen from the Old Dutch Church burying ground, upon the hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane.
The story made these villages famous the world over. So thoroughly did the legend become the place that, in 1996, the neighboring village formally took the name Sleepy Hollow, and the surrounding country has since become, by happy reputation, the Halloween capital of America. Each autumn the legend draws visitors from across the globe to walk the same Main Street our lodge has called home since the nineteenth century.
“A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.”
A Home on Main Street
Our 1897 building stands at 54 Main Street, directly along the historic walk that visitors trace through Irving's Tarrytown, near the Music Hall and the old inns where, by legend, travelers once tarried on market days.
And the legend is woven into our very rolls: Bro. Nathaniel Holmes Odell, banker, congressman, and a son of this lodge, rests today in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, among the Dutch settlers whose gravestones reach back to the 1600s.
Meet Bro. Odell & Others →
Visit Us in Sleepy Hollow Season
When the village fills with lantern light and visitors each autumn, there is no better season to knock. Reach out to arrange a visit, hear the story of the medallion, and see a piece of Tarrytown history, and keep an eye on our events calendar for autumn happenings.