The Golden Age · 1930–1935

The debt drive

1933

Facing $100,000 in building obligations, the members organized a public debt campaign in May 1933: named teams, a women’s division, a past masters’ committee, and progress dinners in the temple dining room. The fund passed $37,100 by mid-May and $57,000 by the end of the month.

Neighborhoods fight for what they love, and the drive is the clearest record of how much the Heights loved this building. The Depression would still have the final word on the temple era, but not for lack of effort.

The source

Newspaper clipping headed $37,100 Raised to Pay Debt of Masonic Group, text only, listing team totals in the temple debt fund drive. — Houston Chronicle, May 16, 1933, p. 9: “$37,100 Raised to Pay Debt of Masonic Group,” the team totals in the members’ campaign for the Houston Heights Masonic Temple debt fund (a digitally restored copy).

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