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Masonic Temple Building (Blount Street, Raleigh, North Carolina) is located in North Carolina
Masonic Temple Building (Blount Street, Raleigh, North Carolina)
Location in North Carolina
Masonic Temple Building (Blount Street, Raleigh, North Carolina) is located in the United States
Masonic Temple Building (Blount Street, Raleigh, North Carolina)
Location in the United States
Location 427 S. Blount St., Raleigh, North Carolina
Built 1907
NRHP reference No. 84002533
Added to NRHP May 3, 1984

The Masonic Temple Building, built in 1907, is an historic Prince Hall Masonic building located at 427 South Blount Street in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is a three-story, red brick flat roofed building. It has a metal cornice at the top of the first floor level and a cast iron Corinthian order column at the corner. On May 3, 1984, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Today it is occupied by Widow's Son Lodge #4 and Excelsior Lodge #21 as well as barber shops and a beauty salon.

It is one of two places of the same name in Raleigh on the National Register of Historic Places, the other being the much larger Masonic Temple Building, Fayetteville Street (Raleigh, North Carolina), which was also built in 1907.

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