The Masonic Temple is a historic fraternal and commercial building at East Fourth Avenue and State Street in

Pine Bluff, Arkansas Pine Bluff is the eleventh-largest city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County. It is the principal city of the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area and part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Pine Bluff Combin ...

. Fundraising for the building was led by

Joseph Carter Corbin Joseph Carter Corbin (March 26, 1833 – January 9, 1911) was a journalist and educator in the United States. Before the abolition of slavery, he was a journalist, teacher, and conductor on the Underground Railroad in Ohio and Kentucky. After th ...

and J. N. Donohoo. It is a four-story brick building, built between 1902 and 1904 by the state's African-American Masonic lodge, the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. It was at the time Pine Bluff's tallest building; the ground floor held retail space, the second floor professional offices, and the upper floors were devoted to the Masonic organizations. The building was listed on the

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in 1978.

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1902 establishments in Arkansas Buildings and structures in Pine Bluff, Arkansas Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Masonic buildings completed in 1902 Prince Hall Masonic buildings in the United States Masonic buildings in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Pine Bluff, Arkansas Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Arkansas {{JeffersonCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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