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The Detroit Masonic Temple was designed in the neo-gothic architectural style, using a great deal of limestone. The ritual building features 16 floors, stands 210 feet (64 m) tall, with 1,037 rooms. The ritual building features 16 floors, stands 210 feet (64 m) tall, with 1,037 rooms.
In 1951, the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Michigan purchased the building for $205,000. The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Michigan was organized in 1865, and by 1872 there were 14 Prince Hall lodges operating in Michigan, three of which were in Detroit. Bu 1925, this had increased to 23 lodges, five of which were in Detroit.
Detroit Masonic Temple. Fort Wayne Hotel / American Hotel, 400–426 Temple : This 11-story, brown-brick and terra cotta building was designed by Ellington and Weston and constructed in 1926 as a lodge headquarters and hotel for the Knights of Pythias. The first and second floors are finished in smooth ashlar and a decorative string of red and ...
The 14-story Detroit Temple is the largest Masonic Temple in the world, boasting a 4,404-seat theater, a 1,586-seat Scottish Rite Cathedral, a 17,500-square-foot (1,630 m 2) drill hall, and two ballrooms—one of which measures 17,264 square feet (1,603.9 m 2) and holds up to 1,000. It was constructed in 1922. 30
The members of Zion Lodge sponsored and supported additional Lodges in Upper Canada and Michigan including Detroit Lodge No. 337 (now No. 2), Oakland Lodge No. 343 in Pontiac, Menomenie Lodge No. 374 in Green Bay (then a part of the Territory) and Monroe Lodge No. 375 in Monroe. These five Lodges laid plans for a Grand Lodge in the Territory to ...
Since 1926, the Regular Communication meetings are held on the 1st Wednesday Monthly at 7:00 PM (except when dark during July and August), [7] in the Greek Ionic Lodge room, located on the 5th floor Center (5C) of the Ritual Tower in the Detroit Masonic Temple, the world's largest Masonic Temple, [8] at 210 feet tall, 1,037 rooms, and 550,000 ...
The Detroit Masonic Temple, Detroit, Michigan. The world's largest Masonic Temple. Masonic Temple of Santa Cruz de Tenerife . The 1920s marked a heyday for Freemasonry, especially in the United States. By 1930, over 12% of the adult male population of the United States were members of the fraternity. [6]
Though Cass runs from Congress Street, ending a few miles farther north at West Grand Boulevard, the Cass Corridor generally is defined as between Interstate 75 (I-75) at its southern end and Interstate 94 (I-94) to the north, and stretches from Woodward to the east and to the west: John C. Lodge (M-10 service drive) north of Temple, and Grand ...