The Masonic Temple Building, built in 1907, is an historic Prince Hall Masonic building located at 427 South Blount Street in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is a three-story, red brick flat roofed building. It has a metal cornice at the top of the first floor level and a cast iron Corinthian order column at the corner.[2] On May 3, 1984, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[1][3]
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| Location | 427 S. Blount St., Raleigh, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°46′27″N 78°38′12″W / 35.77417°N 78.63667°W |
| Built | 1907 |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002533 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 3, 1984 |
Today it is occupied by Widow's Son Lodge #4 and Excelsior Lodge #21 as well as barber shops and a beauty salon.[3][4]
It is one of two places of the same name in Raleigh on the National Register of Historic Places, the other being the much larger Masonic Temple Building, Fayetteville Street (Raleigh, North Carolina), which was also built in 1907.[1]
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edit- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Charlotte Vestal Brown and William Bushong (November 1983). "Masonic Temple Building" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
- ^ a b Stradling, Richard, Prince Hall temple to be renovated, News and Observer, May 27, 2013 Archived October 24, 2013, at the Wayback Machine includes photo, accessed October 16, 2013
- ^ Google search by address 427 S. Blount St. on August 25, 2008
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