Research · a naming table

The Building’s Names

  1. The photographic record
  2. Open questions, sources, corrections
  3. The building’s names
  4. The numbers

Ten names in ninety years. Only the two “Masonic Temple” names were given by the people who used the building; every later name marks a new owner, tenant, or creditor.

Name First documented Context
Masonic Hall / Masonic Temple, Eleventh and Harvard 1916 / 1918 The first hall, pre-1930
Reagan Masonic Temple 1930 The lodge's own name; migrated to 1606 Heights Blvd by 1966
Heights Masonic Temple 1932 Used by co-tenant lodges into the 1980s
Legal Reserve Building Aug. 1940 Home Life Assurance's branding after the 1939 purchase
1102 Apartments 1946–47 Directory heading for the war-worker apartments
Reagan Hall / Melrose Temple / Memorial Temple 1961 / 1963 / 1982 Names given by tenant Masonic bodies
Harvard House Jan. 1981 Rental name, then the 1982–86 conversion name; in 1985 the declarant (Harvard House, a Texas joint venture) and the association it created (Harvard House Condominium Association, Inc.; Harris County File No. K060751)
Harvard Place June 1985 Second marketing name; Harvard Place Inc took title in 1992; on the building's sign in 2019
Harvard Place Lofts / Harvard Lofts 2000 The Silvestri renovation's marketing names
Harvard House Condominiums 2000s Listing-portal name