- On View
- Making a Way Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Making a Way Out of No Way
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, American, founded 1847
- Date
- late 18th century
- Medium
- wood and metal
- Dimensions
- 59 1/4 x 18 7/8 x 16 in. (150.5 x 47.9 x 40.6 cm)
- Description
- A high backed wooden chair used at the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge of Massachusetts. The legs of the chair are rounded columns with decorative capitals and bases. The seat is a box design with small block supports on the underside. The high back of the chair has a decorative column on either side, the PR column is topped with a finial which seems to be missing from the PL side. The wood of the back itself has two identical decorative cutouts, pointed at each end. The very top of the chair is high and rounded with a significant protrusion at the peak. It is stained dark brown all over.
- Place collected
- Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
- Type
- seats and seat components
- chairs
- Topic
- Associations and institutions
- Communities
- Design
- Freemasonry
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts
- Object number
- 2013.71.13
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




