Raymond House]:
The Central Avenue-Center Cemetery Historic District in East Hartford was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 19, 1993. The district encompasses Center Avenue from Main Street to Elm Street and Center Cemetery. The Italianate style of architecture — with nine examples in the district — is the best represented. Raymond House [York Masons Hall], built in 1874
by Raymond as his family residence, is the most imposing. The design combines an Italianate plan — three-bay facade — and Italianate shallow hipped roof with wide overhang supported by console brackets, with a central Federal style pedimented portico featuring a modillioned raking tympanum cornice and paneled square columns. The front entrance is set under a semi-elliptical fanlight, and the windows, which are paired in the facade, have triangular window heads at the first story and projecting horizontal lintels at the second. A one-story ell [i.e., wing of a building that lies perpendicular to the length of the main portion] was added in 1911 upon the building's acquisition by Orient Lodge No. 62 A.F. & A.M. The building was purchased by York Masons Hall, Inc. in October 2006.
