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Masonic Temple, 2019. The Detroit Masonic Temple has been the largest Masonic Temple in the world since 1939, when the Chicago Masonic Temple was demolished. The stage of the auditorium is the second largest in the United States, having a width between walls of 100 feet (30 m) and a depth from the curtain line of 55 feet (17 m).
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 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]
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. 31
Some Detroit parking lot owners will get money to spruce up their lots ahead of the 2024 NFL draft amid a range of city improvements.
Bu 1925, this had increased to 23 lodges, five of which were in Detroit. The Grand Lodge of Michigan appears to have met at 535 Frederick Street during this time; in 1943 the Prince Hall Masons of Detroit purchased a building at 275 East Ferry Street, in what is now the East Ferry Avenue Historic District, to use as a meeting hall. The move to ...
Downtown Detroit's Movie Palaces (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-4102-8. Eric J. Hill; John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3120-3. Kavanaugh, Kelli B. (2001). Detroit's Michigan Central Station (Images of America ...
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 ...