Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1911 — TEMPLE FOR SCOTTISH RITE MASONS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TEMPLE FOR SCOTTISH RITE MASONS

WASHINGTON. —The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the southern Jurisdiction of the United States soon will commence the erection of a mammoth temple In Washington, which it Is expected will be the largest and most magnificent of Its kind In the world. The cost of the site was f 164,000, and the cosf of the new temple \when completed will exceed a million dollars. Classic In design, the structure will be of white mafble, four stories high, with two basements. The building will be square in shape, the frontage 156 feet and depth the same and hare a gold dome rising 160 feet from the street steps leading to the temple will be symbolic of the Masonic degrees. On the terrace will rest symbolical and allegorical statuary. Over the massive portals of the entrance to the temple will be a golden sunburst, the rays of which will flash from the symbolic double eagle and triangle of the thirty-third degree. Above this will rise great columns, 33 in all, each 33 feet high, which will support the temple on three sides and support the entablature, from which rises the square shaped golden dome. Each one of the 33 states' in the southern council will be provided witlj an apartment on the main floor. The cathedral, which will be the crowning glory of the temple, will occupy the entire upper floor of the building. The temple will be completed in time for use of the international conference of supreme councils of the world, 26 in all, which meets with the southern council in Washington in October, 1912.