Excerpt From:
"Auburn Seventh-day Adventist Church History"
by Brian Strayer
Andrews University
Andrews University
During this meeting, local elder William Frank proposed that they move their meetings to the Ensenore Lodge Room of the Odd Fellows Hall on Garden Street so that the senior saints had no stairs to climb. After meeting there for two years, Auburn members moved once again to the Masonic Hall on South Street in 1924 because, besides being cleaner and neater than the Odd Fellow’s Hall, it also offered elevator service for the expanding membership...
...After the fire, members met in the Odd Fellows Hall on State Street for a year until the new Masonic Hall was finished, and then they met on the third floor in St. Paul’s Lodge rooms from 1927 until 1951...
...Newly elected President Elder Owen T. Garner, stern and balding, preached at the Masonic Hall at 10 South Street in August 1942; Field Missionary Secretary C. J. Oliver spoke on canvassing that summer; and Elder Bohner also visited Auburn, thrilled to hear that members had ordered 480 copies of the new booklet “What Seventh-day Adventists Believe” for distribution to Auburn’s citizens....
...Elder Reiswig returned in September for the Central New York Sabbath School Improvement Association meeting at the Masonic Temple, led by Elder Lemuel Esteb of the Atlantic Unon. The Auburn Dorcas ladies provided a delicious lunch. Local member Mary Green was elected assistant secretary of the Improvement Association...
...The decade of the 1950s brought more changes to the Auburn church than any previous decade in its history. After 40 years “in the wilderness,” moving from halls to Masonic temples to upstairs rooms for services, members secured a permanent chapel on 17 Nelson Steet in 1957...
...In 1950 members still held Sabbath services in the Masonic Temple on South Street, but when 21 of them met there on February 5, they discussed a new church building project, studied blueprints, and appointed a six-man committee (Elder Smith, William Frank, Harold Kriegelstein, C. W. White, Maurice Roche, and Herb Pratt)...
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