House of the Temple
The House of the Temple is a Masonic Temple of the Scottish Rite in Washington, DC, built between 1911 and 1915
The mighty neoclassical building by the architect John Russell Pope is modeled on the tomb of Mausolus in Halicarnassus , one of the seven wonders of the ancient world . The inauguration took place after exactly four years of construction on October 18, 1915.
Fiske Kimball described the building in his book American Architecture 1928 as an example of the triumph of classical form, and several surveys ranked it among the best public buildings in the United States. The supporters of modernism in architecture, of course, saw it differently.
The House of the Temple was the location of the film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) and the location of several key scenes in the novel The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown .
Web links
- Supreme Council, Scottish Rite Official Website
- To the history and the planned renovation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anne H. Helwig, Ganschinietz, Suzanne: National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination form (PDF): National Capital Planning Commission . ( National Park Service ). January 30, 1978. Retrieved February 28, 2010. https://www.docdroid.net/b2BQBPa/getdoc-pdf
- ↑ House of the Temple ( Memento of January 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), The Supreme Council, 33 °, AA & SR of Freemasonry, SJ
- ^ Robert Siegel : Secret of the Masons: It's Not So Secret . In: All Things Considered , National Public Radio , September 16, 2009. Retrieved September 18, 2009.
Coordinates: 38 ° 54 ′ 49 ″ N , 77 ° 2 ′ 9 ″ W.