Masonic Temple (Highland Park)
- Year
- 1923
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Highland Park Masonic Temple, also known as The Mason Building or The Highlands, is a three-story brick building at 5567 North Figueroa Street completed in 1923 and designed by Elmore Robinson Jeffrey in the Renaissance Revival style with Mediterranean Revival detailing. It served as the lodge hall for Masonic Lodge 382 for sixty years, with retail shops on the ground floor and the lodge and banquet hall above.
the building
The Lodge Room. The original Lodge Room, with its cherry wood paneling and anaglypta wall coverings, has been restored and preserved; it now operates as Lodge Room, a 500-capacity music venue, continuing the space's history as a gathering hall.
The 1983 vacancy. In 1983, the Masons vacated the building after they could not afford the cost of retrofitting it to meet seismic safety requirements. Private developers then purchased the property and converted the second floor into a banquet facility.
the style
Jeffrey designed the temple in a Commercial/Renaissance Revival style with Mediterranean Revival detailing, pairing street-level retail with more ornamented upper floors reserved for the lodge and banquet hall.
More on Renaissance Revivalthe architect
Elmore Robinson Jeffrey, who designed the temple in 1923, was himself a Mason, giving him a personal stake in the building he designed for Lodge 382.
significance
The temple is individually listed as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #282 and #575 and on the National Register of Historic Places, designated on August 29, 1984, and its restored Lodge Room continues in use today as a music venue.
nearby
- Smith Estate
- Southwest Museum of the American Indian
- Ziegler Estate
- Judson Studios
- Mount Pleasant House
- Constance Perkins House