Tripoli Shrine Temple
- Architect
- Alfred C. Clas
- Year
- 1926
- Style
- Moorish / Mudéjar
- City
- Milwaukee, WI
Tripoli Shrine Temple was completed in 1926 to a design by Alfred C. Clas, a noted Milwaukee architect, in the Moorish Revival style — a rarity for the region. Built for a fraternal Shrine order, its onion-domed exterior remains one of the more distinctive silhouettes on the street, and the building is listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places.
the building
Onion domes. The temple's onion-domed exterior is the building's most immediately recognizable feature, a Moorish Revival touch that is highly visible from the street and unusual among Milwaukee's civic and fraternal architecture.
the style
The temple is a rare regional example of Moorish Revival architecture, chosen to suit its role as a Shrine — a Masonic-affiliated fraternal order — fitting the exotic, domed vocabulary to the order's ceremonial identity.
More on Moorish / Mudéjarthe architect
Alfred C. Clas was a noted Milwaukee architect.
significance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- David W. Howie House
- Abraham H. Esbenshade House
- George Schuster House
- Sheridan Apartment Building
- Milwaukee County Dispensary and Emergency Hospital
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