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The Masonic Temple in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska is a 3-story, Silverdale limestone meeting hall built in 1934-35 by the well-known Lincoln architectural firm of Meginnis and Schaumberg and contractor Charles Olson. The building is built for just under $125,000 in a restrained version of the Art Deco style. Besides the installation of new windows, which have minimal impact on the overall appearance, the building has the same physical attributes today as when it was completed and retains especially significant interior features.

The Masonic Temple in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska is a 3-story, Silverdale limestone meeting hall built in 1934-35 by the well-known Lincoln architectural firm of Meginnis and Schaumberg. The building is built in a restrained version of the Art Deco style. The Kansas limestone offers a pale peach-yellow tone to the 78 by 112 foot structure in contrast its lush, green front lawns. The building is situated behind two mature oak trees on the prominent southwest corner of 17th and L Streets. The temple has a granite water table as its base. The first exterior level of limestone facade is distinguished from the bare second with a banded rustication of the limestone and is punctured with a row of simple recessed windows. This style is similar to the most prominent art deco building in Lincoln, the Nebraska State Capital (NL), which was finished just 3 years before the Masonic Temple. This banded rustication with bare limestone above was replicated again by the architects in their 1936 remodel of the Little Building (LC13C9- 048) at 11th and O Streets. The windows have been modified from the original windows of 1935, as the new windows are fully glazed single lites instead of the common divided lite glazing of the era. This modification has minimal impact on the overall appearance of the building because the windows are deeply recessed. Separating the first and second floors of the building is a decorative, carved stone band predominantly displaying the Masonic star in repetition around the three finished facades of the building. The North facing facade of the building is dominated by the front entrance, centered between the row of first floor recessed windows and crowned by a classical pediment that contains the radiating eye of the Masons. Three low steps rise from the sidewalk to three heavy wood doors, which are framed by a stone casing adorned by the Masonic star and a transom of etched glass panels. Above the entrance and just below the pediment is a carving from a sketch by artist Elizabeth Dolan. The carving is representative of the Masonic order's work, in three figures suggesting youth, manhood, and old age. At top of the facade, the Masonic compass is placed in repetition around the three finished facades of the building.-NRHP Nomination Form

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