The Pittsburgh Masonic Temple was a nine-story building erected by the Masonic Fund Society at a cost of $150,000,000 between 1914 and 1915. This is the equivalent to approximately $38,199,207.92 today.
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Tales from a Scenic Artist and Scholar. Part 902 – The Pittsburgh Scottish Rite, 1915
The Pittsburgh Masonic Temple was a nine-story building erected by the Masonic Fund Society at a cost of $150,000,000 between 1914 and 1915. This is the equivalent to approximately $38,199,207.92 today.
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The first thing that really caught my eye was how similar the temple looked to the one in Baltimore. I vaguely remember watching the nutcracker in what I can only assume was a relatively equivalent building. It’s absolutely amazing how much money people were willing to spend on structures 100 years ago. Thinking about Carnegie Mellon’s campus, Hammerschlag hall is leaps and bounds ahead of its immediate neighbor Wean Hall and that’s just a function of time. The other thing that strikes me is the building was built simply to hold a fraternity-like organization, so it was basically just a big man-cave. The building that are usually beautifully constructed are courthouses, and fire departments, and academic building that are serving the public and are meant to last a long time. I’m sure the Masons would argue that their building falls into the group as well, but I’m not so sure. Of course, in this day and age, membership to elite clubs like that and the Lions that were once invite only have opened their doors, but I’m not fully sure why that shift occurred, but it presumably has to do with my generation not really caring about things like that.
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