The building permit issued on June 20, 1930 authorized the Bace Construction Company to erect the three-story temple for a structure cost of $105,035. The permit reads “1101 Harvard,” the odd side of the street, where the city’s 2008 inventory records a gas station of about 1925 on the corner.
The building rose across the street at 1100, undisturbed by the paperwork. The record is full of such address garbles at this corner; the permit is the founding example.
The source
Houston Chronicle, June 20, 1930 (partial page; no date or folio visible): Masonic and De Molay notices. The permit list quoted in this entry (p. 38) is not in the part shown.
