The Prince Hall Masonic Temple built in 1922 is an historic
Prince Hall Masonic building located at 1000
U Street, NW in
Washington, D.C. It is the headquarters of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge District of Columbia, and houses the MWPGM Roland D. Williams Center for Masonic Excellence. It is part of the
Greater U Street Historic District
The U Street Corridor, sometimes called Cardozo/Shaw or Cardozo, is a commercial and residential district in Northwest Washington, D.C., most of which also constitutes the Greater U Street Historic District. It is centered along a nine-block s ...
.
History
It was designed by
Albert Cassell
Albert Irvin Cassell (1895–1969) was a prominent mid-twentieth-century African-American architect in Washington, D.C., whose work shaped many academic communities in the United States. He designed buildings for Howard University in Washington D ...
, and constructed from 1922 to 1929.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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Masonic buildings in Washington, D.C.
Masonic buildings completed in 1922
Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Prince Hall Masonic buildings in the United States
Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Washington, D.C.
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