Description

Made of red masonry and brick, the Masonic Temple has two facades--the sides on Dorrance and Pine streets. These loosely echo palazzos of the Italian Renaissance, with pilasters, Corinthian capitals, string coursing, and increasingly smaller windows in the upper floors. The building sits up on a beige-colored pedestal perforated by basement windows. The other two faces are as stark as the parking lots and garages they border; on the west is a plain brick wall studded with factory-type windows, while on the south stands a sheer, windowless surface, haphazardly accented with two billboards sitting side-by-side at its base.

Currently, the building contains an India Restaurant and the studio for WARL-1320 AM on the first floor; the upper floors contain office suites, among which are seventeen law firms.