National Register of Historic Places
Masonic Temple
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
The record
- Listed
- June 23, 2017
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 1100 Henderson St., Fort Worth
- County
- Tarrant
- State
- Texas
- Contributing resources
- 1 building, 6 objects
- Coordinates
- 32.74716, -97.33840
- Reference number
- 100001227
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The story
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The Masonic Temple is a lodge building at 1100 Henderson St. in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, listed in the National Register in 2017. It was built between 1930 and 1932 by architect Wiley G. Clarkson in Modern Classical and Art Deco style.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in social history and architecture. Its period of significance runs from 1932 to 1967, reflecting its 1932 completion.
Physical character
Exterior walls are Indiana limestone, trimmed with gray, green and cream marble. The Arabian Room has Moorish arches and hand-painted murals, and the Tudor Lounge has exposed beams and a stone fireplace. Its central entrance was closed and filled with a marble niche between 1951 and 1953, and a 1997 alteration removed the north-side landscaping for a tiered parking lot.
Historical context
Fort Worth Lodge No. 148 was chartered in 1855, and Masons met in 1918 to plan a temple. The Masonic Temple Association of Fort Worth was chartered by the State of Texas in 1929, after Moslah Temple voted in 1923 to buy the site. Masons held their first meetings in the finished temple in 1932, and it was dedicated in 1953 to William Stevenson Cooke.