Masonic Temple Building (Blount Street, Raleigh, North Carolina) Explained

Masonic Temple Building
Location:427 S. Blount St., Raleigh, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.7742°N -78.6367°W
Built:1907
Added:May 3, 1984
Refnum:84002533

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.[1] On May 3, 1984, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[2]

Today it is occupied by Widow's Son Lodge #4 and Excelsior Lodge #21 as well as barber shops and a beauty salon.[2] [3]

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.

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  1. Web site: Charlotte Vestal Brown and William Bushong. Masonic Temple Building . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . November 1983 . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-05-01.
  2. http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/05/27/2921539/raleigh-masonic-lodge-a-tough.html Stradling, Richard, Prince Hall temple to be renovated
  3. http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=%09427+S.+Blount+St.%2C%2C+Raleigh%2C+NC&btnG=Google+Search Google search by address 427 S. Blount St. on August 25, 2008