The Flandreau Masonic Temple in

Flandreau, South Dakota Flandreau is a city in and county seat of Moody County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 2,372 at the 2020 census. It was named in honor of Charles Eugene Flandrau, a judge in the territory and state of Minnesota. He is credit ...

is a building dating mostly from 1916. It was listed on the

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in 1989. It has also been known as the Old Moody County Courthouse. It is "a massive two-story rectangular

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

building. Rising from a poured concrete foundation, the wood frame walls are covered with stucco and encircled by a three foot high brick watertable. The temple is capped by a

hipped roof A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus, ...

covered with wood shingles. A tall brick chimney rises from the northwest (front) corner. Projecting from the center of the west (front) facade is a huge

pediment Pediments are gables, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds. A pedimen ...

supported by four Ionic columns." With It was originally built in 1882 to serve as the county courthouse, with late-Victorian vernacular style. It then had "a gable roof with a large gabled dormer projecting from the center of each axial facade", with gables decorated by

bargeboards Bargeboard (probably from Medieval Latin ''bargus'', or ''barcus'', a scaffold, and not from the now obsolete synonym "vergeboard") or rake fascia is a board fastened to each projecting gable of a roof to give it strength and protection, and to ...

. It was bought by the Masonic lodge in 1916 and was damaged by fire in 1919. Major remodeling was required, and added the Colonial Revival treatments.

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Masonic buildings completed in 1916 Buildings and structures in Moody County, South Dakota Masonic buildings in South Dakota Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Dakota National Register of Historic Places in Moody County, South Dakota {{SouthDakota-NRHP-stub