Welcome

Welcome to The Fairchild Mansion; home of Oneonta Lodge No. 466, Free & Accepted Masons of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York. This tour was originally compiled and written for a dinner to benefit the Orpheus Theater in December, 1986. It was later edited for a wedding reception in May, 1987 by Fred Hicken. He made some revisions in the fall of 2014. R.W. Fred G. Hickein is a Past Master 1962 of Oneonta Masonic Lodge No.466.

In 2014 Bruce Van Buren created a presentation which he and Fred gave at the Swart-Wilcox house. This incorporated photos and graphics and added historical information about the Fairchilds taken from several sources including Wikipedia and IBM.

This is a reorganization of that presentation to be suitable as a historical presentation and tour reference leaving from the social room. Fred's tour has been incorporated.