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Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson
Yes, we're looking southeast across Olive and 4th Streets and I believe the Masonic building you're looking for is the building with all the advertising on it that I've identified as being the PE building which technically it is. On Baist maps of the period, this building is shown as being the offices for the PE and the PE Club Building but it is in fact also the Masonic building at the same time. Here's a shot of it in about 1920...
P.E. Hill Street Station, ca.1920
Next door to the Masonic Temple built in 1896. The P.E. Hill Street Station served an outdoor railhead which sat just out of frame to the right. Large building directly behind the Masonic Lodge is the Trenton on Olive.
USC digital archive/Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
As you can see it is south of the PE terminal, rather than west.
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While always known as a Masonic Temple during its 1896-1925 existence (it did after all have such carved onto the second floor quite prominently), one small point of clarification—many a Blue Lodge did meet there (e. g. LA 42, Pentalpha 202) as well as the Scottish Rite, which had the whole third floor, after its 1896 opening, however, the Rite moved out and into their own magnificent temple/theater in 1906 (Hudson and Munsell, 929 S Hope, made obsolete by the opening of the
Rite on Wilshire, and felled in 1970); and the Blue Lodges (along, I believe, with the York Rite, another appendant body in Masonry) moved away to a larger building in 1907 (also Hudson and Munsell [
also known for the Shrine Auditorium of 1906, and the Bunker Hill Elks Lodge of 1910] at Pico and Figueroa).
A host of Hudson & Munsells:
![](https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3665/33428226996_16561748c2_o.png)
Pico/Figueroa, 1907-1985
usc
![](https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/707/32654569713_e7fd7f5642_o.png)
Scottish Rite, 929 S Hope, 1906-1970
![](https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2923/32654569853_32fe425a03_o.png)
Shrine Auditorium, 649 W Jefferson, burns 1920,
replaced 1926
![](https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/763/33428227566_b86675256e_b.jpg)
Elks Lodge, 300 S Olive, 1910-1962
(latter three images, postcards)
No great surprise, Hudson & Munsell were also responsible for the recently-discussed 1910
Elks Lodge in Pedro.