The 1832 election pitted Brother Andrew Jackson against Anti-Masonic Party candidate William Wirt. Paul Boynton, a fervent Freemason, declared if his state, Vermont, voted for Wirt, he would leave. As it would happen, Vermont was the only state Wirt took and, true to his word, Brother Boynton moved to Canton, NY. There, to demonstrate his loyalty to the craft, he built "The Royal Arch House," where he lived for the remainder of his life. The building was replete with Masonic symbolism including a central room known as "The Third Veil" and a hidden secret chamber where Masonic Lodges in the area met throughout the peak of the anti-Masonic period.
