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Scottish Rite Cathedral |
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| Title: | Scottish Rite Cathedral and Masonic Temple |
| Alternate Title: | Masonic Temple |
| Creator - Architect: |
Richard Sharp Smith |
| Creator - Architectural Firm: |
Smith & Carrier |
| Building Address: | 80 Broadway, Asheville, NC |
| Subject - Keyword: |
Asheville, NC; Scottish Rite Cathedral and Masonic Temple and architecture; Asheville NC; Smith & Carrier and architecture and fraternal orders; |
| Subject - LCSH: | Scottish Rite Cathedral and Masonic Temple (Asheville,
N.C.)
Asheville (NC) -- Architecture and development Asheville (NC) -- Fraternal orders and architecture and downtown |
| Description: | Majestic 4-story pressed brick temple trimmed in limestone and gray brick and with a granite foundation. First floor is rusticated. Bracketed, hipped red tile roof covers the front portion, gable roof the hall. 2-story limestone portico with paired Ionic columns embellishes the Broadway elevation. Woodfin elevation has a graceful 3-story blind thermal window. |
| Publisher: | D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville |
| Contributor: | National Registry of Historic Places |
| Date Building Constructed / Ended: | 1913 |
| Date Building Destroyed: | Remaining |
| Building Type: | Fraternal Temple |
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| Building Current Function: | Masonic Temple |
| Building Historic Function: | Masonic Temple |
| Historic Overview: | "The Ancient Free and Accepted Mason is a fraternal order with a worldwide membership, thought to have arisen from practicing stone masons and cathedral builders in the early Middle Ages. The Mount Hermon Masonic Lodge of Asheville, first formed in 1848. The lodge had no formal meeting place for more than 50 years until 1909, when the 500 members passed a resolution to acquire a site for the Masonic Temple.1920 marked the temple's highest membership with 800 members, which led to the formation of new lodges. As the oldest fraternal organization in western North Carolina, the Mount Hermon Lodge was instrumental in the creation of 40 other Masonic temples in the region." (N. R. H. P.) |
| Tenants: | Masons |
| Format: | text; image |
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| Language: | eng = English |
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| Related Images: (E. M. Ball Collection) |
N1456
Masonic Temple, Broadway, front from left side, 1929 N0988 Masonic Temple, Broadway, front, decorated with flags, same as N1943. N1457 Masonic Temple, Broadway, front from right side, 1929. N1943 Masonic Temple, Broadway, front, decorated with flags, same as N988. |
| Coverage - Temporal: |
After 1913 |
| Coverage - Spatial: |
Asheville, NC |
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| Rights: | Any display, publication or public use must credit D. H.
Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at
Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
| Processed By: | Erica; UNCA & Downtown Asheville Historic District |
| Updated: | Mar 02 |
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