Beach Cities Lodge is the consolidation of six former lodges, the earliest of which was chartered in 1923. Consolidation of these lodges occurred as follows (see diagram below):

Morning Side Lodge No. 742
(chartered in October 1955)

merged with

Manhattan Beach Lodge No. 817
(charted on June 1, 1964)

to become

Manhattan Beach Lodge No. 742
(consolidated on December 5, 1972)

then

Hermosa Beach Lodge No. 557
(chartered in 1923)

merged with

Manhattan Beach Lodge No. 742

to become

Hermosa Manhattan Lodge No. 557
(consolidated on June 1, 1984)

then

Hermosa Manhattan Lodge No. 557

merged with

Dana R. Weller Lodge No. 765
(chartered in 1956)

to become

Beach Cities Lodge No. 557
(consolidated on April 1, 1993)

bringing us to another branch in the tree,
in which...

Hawthorne Lodge No. 647
(chartered in 1926)

merged with

Lawndale Lodge No. 753
(chartered in 1955)

to become

Unity Lodge No. 753
(consolidated on November 1, 1993)

and finally

Beach Cities Lodge No. 557

merged with

Unity Lodge No. 753

to become our present

Beach Cities Lodge No. 753
(consolidated on June 1, 2001)