The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-14
SAVANNAH MASONS
PLAN NEW HOME
TO BE 4-SToRY STRUCTURE.
WILL BE BUILT OF MARBLE AND
CREAM OR GRAY BRICK.

Work on Building Will Begin In
October-It VIII stand at Bull and
Charlton streets and VIII Cost BE-
tween $4,000 and $75,OOO, Not In
Gliding Cost of Site, which Was
s22 ,ssOO-Three stores Will Occupy
First Floor and "A Hall or Offices
on the secOnd-Third and Fourth
for Masonic Purposes.
Plans for the new Masonic Temple
were adopted last night and about Oct.
/ work on the foundation of the
building will be begun.
These matters were decided at spe-
cial meeting of the Masonic Temple
Association.
The building will be four stories, on
a basement cellar, the first floor to be
Of marble and the remainder to be of
cream, or gray pressed brick, to har-
monte The structure will cost be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, not including
the cost of the site, which was $22,
500.
This site is on the southwest corner
Of Bull and Charlton streets, extend
ting some ninety feet on Bull street,
and about sixty feet on Charlton. The
building will face on Bull street, from
which will be the entrances to the
three stores that it is planned shall
constitute the lower floor of the tenn
pie. The entrance to the third and
abe fourth floors, which will be used
exclusively for the purpose of the va
rious Masonic bodies, will be on Charl-
ton street.
To Get Plans at Once.
The plans at present include no dispo-
sition of the second floor, which may be
retained as a hall, or which may be
made into office apartments. This is
the plan of the building as at present
outlined. A committee of three MEM
bers of the association will be appoint
ed within the next day or two to en-
gage an architect to make the plans,
and specify details. AS soon as a copy
of these plans can be made the associa-
ton will have another meeting to con-
slider them.
1t is the intention Of the association
to have a building that in its ARCHITECT
ture, location, size and finish shall be
a credit to the city and make it unneces-
sary for future generations of Masons,
Tor some time to come, to be bothered
by inadequate quarters or the need for
new site. The fittings of the floors
10 be devoted to the purpose of the
craft will be of such a nature as will
make the new home one of the most
complete, as it is intended it shall be.
one of the finest in the South.
All Masons Will Help.
The funds for the structure will
come from the various Masonic bodies
OF this city. The great majority of
these have already contributed largely
to the cause and will doubtless add
much more to their interests by the
time the work on the building is be-
gun. 1t is more than probable, too
that those that have not yet come into
the movement will do so at an early
date, and that. too, to an extent that
will enable the committee having in
charge the new building, to rush the
work Of finishing it at the earliest pos
sible moment.
The building that is planned will
compare most favorably with the 9TH
er fine structures that are now in the
vicinity of the site or which are soon
to be erected in the neighborhood. It
will be directly across the street from
the Guards Armory and will be flank
ed on the south. at no distant date. it
IS believed, by new Y. NJ. G. A. build
ing that will cost approximately as
much as the Masonic Temple Across
the corner of the square will be an
other handsome new structure, the
apartment hotel that Maj. J. Ferris
. Cam and others are now planning to
erect