Masonic Temples

[ZachariahDaMan]

Belleville, MI

[dgreco]

bunch of temples in michigan? Any reason?

[ZachariahDaMan]

I'm not sure, degreco. Perhaps another Michigan forumer knows?

Dearborn, MI

[RustTown]

I doubt that there is more temples, and chalk this up to us having a forumer (Zach) going to hunt these down and photograph them.

[dtown]

LOL, there are probobly alot in most states, but Zachariah has been to almost every town in MI!

EDIT: Lmich beat me to it!

[billpa]

Philadelphia:

[Lone Ranger]

Are you kidding me? That's fantastic!

[billpa]

It is certainly a beautiful building...That picture was one I found on the Internet at work...here's one I took myself a couple of years ago.

And the odd thing is you don't always notice it because it's across the street from city hall, which really dominates the immediate area...

And here's one that's not my own that gets both buildings in the frame:

[dtown]

Beautiful!

[ZachariahDaMan]

Napoleon, MI

Liberty, MI

Horton, MI

Parma, MI

[Gusterfell]

Newport, RI:

Please excuse the awkward composition of my pic. The building sits at the corner of two very narrow streets, so it is hard to find a good angle to photograph it.

[ZachariahDaMan]

Memphis, MI

[dgreco]

In San Fransisco, I am not sure if it honored Masonic temples or was one, it was a very mdoern building to look like one. I have to find the other picture to show you the whole building.

[ZachariahDaMan]

Grand Rapids, MI

[MSUBear42]

St Louis:

[dgreco]

St Louis:

[rbdetsport]

What is the history behind Masonic Temples around the World?

[RustTown]

It's a very lengthy and secretive history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Fr...ive_freemasonry

[rob_1412]

Decatur, Indiana:

Fort Wayne, Indiana:

Battle Ground, Indiana:

La Porte, Indiana:

Noblesville, Indiana:

Winchester, Indiana:

Allegan, Michigan:

Lisbon, Ohio:

[Raintree21]

Joseph A. Hearn Lodge #685: Toronto, Ontario

George Washington Masonic Memorial: Alexandria, VA

Freemason's Hall: St. John's, Newfoundland

Eagle Lodge #19: Hillsborough, NC

Masonic Temple: Charlotte, NC (demolished)

[GaoshouZ]

我感觉还是不错的了。我感觉还是不错的了。

Lansing's is now a classroom building for Cooley Law School, the nation's largest law school. It's very hard to fully photograph, and these photos aren't my best:

Entrance

Mural (destroyed by a storm in 2005)

Full View

Top

It's a big, old thing, and as Cooley keeps moving their classes to the high-rise Cooley Center just a block away, what will become of the building is unknown at the moment.

Lansing's first Masonic Temple

[rob_1412]

Chicago's Medinah Temple, now Bloomingdale's Home Store:

[rob_1412]

Antioch Temple, Dayton, Ohio:

[Southron]

Former Masonic temple in Mobile, Alabama:

[Gusterfell]

The Providence temple was shown earlier in the thread in the process of being converted into a Renaissance hotel. The hotel opened a few weeks ago, so here is a pic of the finished product by night, as seen from the RI State House: