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Attached clapboard and brick buildings on West 155th Street, sharing a covered wooden porch. At left is the William McKinley Temple, a Masonic lodge built in 1925. The houses have long since been demolished. Today, the lodge is the Prince Hall Masonic Temple, named after the 18th century founder of African American Freemasonry.
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William McKinley Temple, data unknown. Built in 1925 for the William McKinley Lodge No. 840, today the building maintains this Masonic purpose. The Classical Revival style lodge was lost to foreclosure in 1936, though it seems that the groups continued to meet in the space for some time. From 1938 until the late 1980s, the building was occupied by the Savage School for Physical Education, a training school for physical education teachers. Today the building is the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, a African American masonic community that was actively involved in the Civil Rights movement and continues to work on social service projects in the communities surrounding their lodges.

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Prince Hall Masonic Temple

Banquet Tendered to W. Bro. Holles E. Cooley - By Pacific Lodge No. 233 F. & A.M., Grand Lodge Room - Masonic Temple - New York City - Dec. 15th 1904.
454 West 155th Street image

454 West 155th Street

West 155th Street near St. Nicholas Avenue. Wm. McKinley Temple.
454 West 155th Street image

454 West 155th Street

Prince Hall Masonic Temple image

Prince Hall Masonic Temple

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