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Seaton Star Hall — SPJST Lodge 47
Historic fraternal lodge and dance hall · Temple
Temple-area SPJST lodge hall supporting Czech-Texas community gatherings, dances, and rentals.
About this room
In January 1903, Frank Motl and J. F. Sefcik led the men of Seaton in forming an order of the SPJST, the Czech benevolent society. They named it Hvezda Texasu - the Texas Star Lodge, which is where Star Hall gets its name. The members met in Thomas Mikulastik's blacksmith shop and in the Seaton school before building their first lodge hall on this site in 1906, adding land and facilities over the years including a larger hall. The lodge has supported drama, gymnastics, traditional dance and choir programs, the Red Cross, youth groups and political rallies, and hosted dances, reunions, meetings and agricultural fairs. It still meets on the first Sunday of each month, still runs an annual picnic, and rents its hall and outdoor pavilion.
History sources checked August 29, 2026.
Things you may not know
- The name is Czech for Texas Star: Hvezda Texasu, the Texas 'Star' Lodge. Source
- It started in the back of a blacksmith shop. The lodge met in Thomas Mikulastik's smithy and in the Seaton school before it had a building. Source
- The lodge is older than the hall by three years - chartered January 1903, first hall built 1906. Source
- The programme was never just dancing: drama, gymnastics, traditional dance and choir, plus the Red Cross, youth groups and political rallies. Source
- The annual picnic runs on a fixed shape: fried chicken and sausage lunch, a polka jam from noon to three, a bake sale of pies, kolaches and cakes, and an auction at three whose proceeds go to the hall's maintenance. Source
- SPJST's own communications VP calls it one of the largest community centers in eastern Bell County. Source
- It got its historical marker in 2004, marker number 13009. Source
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