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History. Designed by the firm of Burnham and Root and built at the corner of Randolph and State Streets, the building rose 21 stories. When the clock tower was removed from the 1885 Board of Trade Building in 1895, the Masonic Temple became the tallest in the city. The building was owned by Oriental Lodge #33 which still meets to this day.
1912. Design and construction. Architect (s) Huehl & Schmid. The Medinah Temple is a large Moorish Revival building in Chicago built by Shriners architects Huehl & Schmid in 1912. It is located on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois at 600 N. Wabash Avenue, extending from Ohio Street to Ontario Street. It is currently the temporary home of ...
1346 Tuscaloosa Ave. 33°29′33″N86°51′19″W / 33.49250°N 86.85528°W / 33.49250; -86.85528 (West End Masonic Temple) Birmingham, Alabama. Classical Revival building which served as a Masonic Hall until 1985 when it was sold and converted to office space.
The first (or "ground") floor appears, from the outside, to be part of the foundation. In the center of the first floor is the Grand Masonic Hall. The Grand Masonic Hall features eight large green granite columns, four on each side of the hall. [67] The Grand Masonic Hall is 66 feet (20 m) long, 66 feet (20 m) wide, and 20 feet (6.1 m) high. [67]
Masonic Temple of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain). 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] The dues generated by such numbers allowed state Grand Lodges to build on truly monumental scales.
Masonic Temple Building in Chicago. Burnham and Root went on to build more of the first American skyscrapers, such as the Masonic Temple Building [11] in Chicago. Measuring 21 stories and 302 feet, the temple held claims as the tallest building of its time, but was torn down in 1939. The talents of the two partners were complementary.
1892 Masonic Temple, Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root (Demolished, 1939) 1892–1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Daniel Burnham, director of Works World's Columbian Exposition (1892–93) 1893 Palace of Fine Arts, later Museum of Science and Industry, Beaux-Arts, Charles B. Atwood; 1893-1898 St. John Cantius Church, Alphonsus Druiding
1885. Demolished. 2017. The Paul Revere Masonic Temple was a Masonic Temple built in Chicago, Illinois in 1880 as a residential home, at 1521 West Wilson Avenue. In 1899 became the Ravenswood Women’s Club with an addition later. [1], it was made out of wood, it was a two stories building, with a large front porch and a large lawn on the ...