Masonic Lodge- Eagle Lake Commercial Historic District - Eagle Lake, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 29° 35.352 W 096° 20.047
14R E 758218 N 3276234
The two-story 1911 Masonic Lodge designed by Sanguinet, Stoats, & Bames of Houston signals a transition on McCarty Avenue from Italian Renaissance to the Beaux Arts style.
Waymark Code: WMY8E0
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/09/2018
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Texas Historic Site Atlas
This tan brick building has a stepped and peaked parapet with the Masonic crest inset into a circle. Below that, a metal gutter has been added over a dentilled brick cornice. The second story window openings, now filled in with lighter tan bricks, are rectangular and separated by pilasters with dentiled capitals. A horizontal inset panel below the window sills provides a surface for three diamond-shaped bases to which are attached the awning support wires. The windows, horizontal panel, and transom are as is a unit framed on the top and sides by columns and rows of projecting bricks, with squares of projecting bricks enclosed in each upper corner. The storefront below the awning is divided, with a single door leading upstairs to the Lodge and an inset single doorway, flanked by what appears to be aluminum-framed Formica, for the offices of the local court on the first floor.