NRHP: Scottish Rite Temple
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Scottish Rite Temple
NRHP Reference #: 86003359
NRHP Listing Date: 19861201
Location
332 Centennial Mall S, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska
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Summary
Lincoln's Scottish Rite Temple is a reinforced concrete, Neo-Classical Revival style building sheathed in Indiana limestone. The temple's most prominent feature is a colossal order of ten Roman Doric columns on the front facade. By 1916 when the temple was constructed, there were seventeen Masonic organizations in the city. On April 6, 1916, Lincoln's Delta Lodge of Perfection No. 4 voted to build a new Scottish Rite Temple. The building was designed by Ellery L. Davis, Lincoln's leading architect in the first half of the twentieth century.
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