3. Masonic Temple
106/108 North Washington Avenue
Built in 1924
Art Deco by Charles Watt, architect |
A fire destroyed the previous red brick building on this site in 1921. In 1924, the local Masonic order (named Blue Lodge, which was established in El Dorado in 1846 as the 13th order formed in the United States) had completed its new lodge’s immense wall murals of the building of King Solomon’s Temple.
The murals were painted by Thomas G. Moses of Chicago; restored in the early 1970’s by local artist DeWanna Womack. This charitable group site now hosts several local Masonic orders’ meetings. (Not open to the public.)
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