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The Moolah Temple, formally the Moolah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, is a historic building located at 3821 Lindell, in
Flickr photo Moolah Theater window detailKETC feature of the Moolah Shriners Band
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The Moolah Temple, formally the Moolah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, is a historic building located at 3821 Lindell, in St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...
. It was built in 1912 for use as a meeting place, and is "a brick and tile building in the Moorish style
Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mid-19th centu ...
.
It was built by the Moolah Shriners as the 28th Shrine Temple to be chartered. Moolah Temple as a name also refers to the organization, which met in the late 19th century at various Freemason
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities ...
buildings and had over 133 members attending meetings at a point. In 1912 the organization took steps towards forming its own building. The Lindell Boulevard location was chosen and Ernest Helfensteller, Jr., of Helfensteller, Hirsch and Watson, was chosen as architect. The building was completed and the first meeting was held in March 1914. The building was used by the Moolah Shriners until 1988, when it relocated to a renovated junior high school on Fee Fee Road. The building operated as a movie theater until 2020, after a $17.2 million renovation in 2004, and 40 apartments.The building also lays home to Moolah Lanes — the oldest operating bowling alley in the city of St. Louis.
It is a contributing building in St. Louis's Midtown Historic District, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
(NRHP). The district's NRHP nomination describes the building's architecture as "colorful".
The building faces on Kenrick Garden, a city park established in 1896.
See also
* Glazed architectural terra-cotta * Scottish Rite Cathedral (St. Louis), at 3627 Lindell Boulevard, completed in 1924 *New Masonic Temple (St. Louis)
The New Masonic Temple is a historic building in St. Louis, Missouri, built in 1926. Like List of Masonic buildings, many other buildings built for Freemason meeting places, it shows Classical Revival architecture.
Named a city landmark in 1976, ...
, at 3681 Lindell, completed in 1926
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Flickr photo Moolah Theater window detail
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