Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-22
TEMPLE
Will Be BUILT
Building of Gigantic Proper
lions to Be Erected in the
City Next Summer
NEW PROPOSITIONS ARE MADE
NEW PROPOSITIONS ARE MADE
Association Elects Officers at a Meeting
Wednesday Night and Will Appoint
Committees Next Neutrality-suspicious.
to Build on Center and Main, Old Ire
mont Site, and Hambel Corner Made.

A Masonic Temple for Marshalltown
lis now an assured fact. Best of all
it will be erected this summer, and
work will be begun next week in
making the necessary arrangements.
The directors of the Masonic Temple
Association met Wednesday evening
and elected officers, choosing j. l..
Carney as president; C. ]. Lander, vice
president; Byron Webster, secretary,
and A. f. Balch, treasurer. Aside from
the president, vice president n sec
rotary two other members were selected
to act as an executive committee hav-
ing full power in the building matter.
They are II. p. Densel and Charles n.
Hull.
The directors resolved to build the
temple next summer, and the executive
committee was authorized to take the
necessary steps to secure subscriptions
of stock, and adopt any other means
of assuring the financial end of the
proposition as might be deemed de-
sirable. A committee to secure plans.
and another to act on finances. will
be appointed at a meeting to be heid
earlysnext week.
New Propositions Talked.
While the Masonic Temple Associa-
ton will mmenc operations with the
intentions of building On its own prop
1r&. on,<o 1o ~ Ca,,fh EfrSf oyannn
between Main and Church, three other
propositions are going to be considered,
providing they assume definite proper
tons. Other sites for the temple have
been suggested since 1t was made pub
lie thru these columns several days
ago that the temple would likely be
built this summer. The new PROPOSE
tons include the Abbott corner and
the adjoining w. A. WATSON property,
a sixty-foot frontage on Main street;
the fremont Block site, with 12O foot
frontage on Main street, and the Ham
bel corner, at Church and Center. The
executive committee will require about
two months time before the plans
a be secured and adopted. and then,
should the right proposition be re-
the location, originally intended,
will be changed. The temple associa-
ton officers want to do one thing.
and that one thing is uppermost in
their minds. 1t is to benefit Marshall
town to the greatest advantage. While
they are building they are going to
erect a structure that will, without
doubt, be the finest thing in an archi-
tectural way, in the city. If they can
see their way clear to put the building
at some site where 1t will prove more
advantageous to the city and it's bust
ness interests. they will dispose of their
own land and build on the other.
The temple will be five stories in
height, at least, and probably six. On
the Abbott corner 1t is estimated that
an expenditure OF at least $125.000 will
be required, as that property is most
valuable. On the other hand the di-
rectors see that greater may
be derived from rentals on this To-
cation, and as a business proposition
this will be taken into consideration.
The estimate on the fremont and
Hambel sites is that the building will
cost between 100000 and $4,000 at
either place.
A Hotel Proposition.
WIN th0 PAOPOSiNiOlA OA lUe IRE
mont and Hambel sites the talk
OF a hotel in connection, and If either
OF these properties is chosen a modern
hotel will be built in connection with
the temple. With the larger building
frontage the Masons will not need as
many floors IS they had intended oc-
cupying, and instead Of two they could
get along with one. This would give
room for a hotel Office and dining room
on the first floor, together with one or
two large store rooms; sleeping apart
ments on the second and third; offices
on the fourth and fifth and the Mason
lie apartments on the sixth. A por-
ton of the basement could also be
rented at an advantage.
The association is not going to stop
at cost. but Is going to build the best
that money a buy. Architects are
already working on plans, which will
be submitted as soon as completed.