Before the Temple · 1891–1929

A temple is announced, three years early

1927

In May 1927, under Worshipful Master M. Mankins, the lodge called a special meeting for Saturday, June 4, to lay the cornerstone for a proposed new Heights Masonic Temple at Eleventh and Harvard. The building project had begun in earnest, then paused.

The grand temple would wait three more years for its famous 1930 cornerstone. The 1927 call survives as proof of how long the ambition had been building.

The source

Full newspaper page of automobile classified ads, with a Society and Lodges column at lower left carrying Masonic notices.
Houston Post-Dispatch, May 27, 1927: the “Society and Lodges” column on a page of automobile ads, with a Reagan Lodge notice signed C. F. Bawcom, W.M., and James F. Helms, secretary. The cornerstone call quoted in this entry (p. 15) is not on this page.

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Also: The cornerstone call: Houston Post-Dispatch, May 27, 1927, p. 15.