Beautiful Masonic Temple

[Blake Bowden]

Sad that it was demolished...

http://library.ndsu.edu/fargo-history/?q=content/masonic-temple

 

[cog41]

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.

Thanks for the post.

 

[Browncoat]

Yah, very nice building, don'tcha know?

Sorry. Couldn't help myself with a Fargo reference.

 

[promason]

wish rebuild,must be,yep,legacy,

 

[dfreybur]

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.

 

[Sammcd]

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[Sammcd]

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.


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[Warrior1256]

It is sad when such a beautiful example of Masonic history is no more.

 

[Bloke]

Money and maintenance gets to most of them

I respectfully disagree. Most of the time those two problems arrise from one thing; poor management.