#ThrowbackThursday: The Masonic Temple on Clermont Avenue

The Masonic Temple on Clermont Avenue at Lafayette Avenue, in 1910. (Photo courtesy the Museum of the City of New York)
The Masonic Temple on Clermont Avenue at Lafayette Avenue, built in 1907. (Photo courtesy the Museum of the City of New York)

This week’s #ThrowbackThursday is a 1910 photograph of the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on Clermont Avenue, built between 1907 and 1909 by architects Austin Lord and James Monroe Hewlett. Today, the building’s owners, Empire State Grand Council, Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite Masons, rent out its large auditorium for concerts.

Have you been inside, locals?

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