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El Paso Scottish Rite Temple

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1922, Hubbell and Greene. 301 W. Missouri St.

The Scottish Rite of Freemasons organized in El Paso in 1883 and met in rented rooms until this temple was constructed. Dallas architects Hubbell and Greene designed a confident yet restrained Classical Revival building that pays tribute to the Pan American Union Building in Washington, D.C. (1910, Paul P. Cret and Albert Kelsey). A central portal of three tall arches framed with Ionic pilasters is bracketed by tower-like end bays. Masonic symbols in small roundels on the arched transoms are also restrained; the exceptions are two large, polychrome sphinxes that guard the gentle but monumental staircase at the N. Santa Fe Street entrance.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Southwest University Park
Old San Francisco Historic District
El Paso Museum of History
El Paso Public Library
El Paso Museum of Art (Greyhound Bus Station)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "El Paso Scottish Rite Temple", [El Paso, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-EP9.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 477-477.

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