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It was a very interesting building. I love old buildings like this. I enjoy walking around the old churches, courthouses and lodge buildings. Unfortunately we can't preserve them all. Money and maintenance gets to most of them.
I have come to the conclusion that if your lodge can't afford a building nice enough that it shows a positive cash flow on the tax records through rental income, then your lodge can't afford a building yet and should stay a tenant. As reported in the story I favor many lodges and appendent bodies working together to make such buildings.
I would have expected a building so magnificent to see a good business hosting weddings and other events to be able to maintain itself. Doing that takes a full time building manager so it's not easy to enter into that field.
Picture of Muskogee, Oklahoma temple. Three Lodges, Muskogee # 28, Oriental lodge # 430, Trinity Lodge #502, OES and York Rite share this facility. It has recently been added to the List of National Historic Places.