Saturday, April 11, 2015

Guthrie Masonic Lodge (Guthrie, Oklahoma)

I just visited this building couple days ago. To be honest I never though I was going to find one building like this one at Oklahoma. To start, first this building was the first state government of Oklahoma building, when the capital city was Guthrie. Then a university bought this building and hosted classes for a while. Around 1920s the Masonic Brother or the Scottish Rite brothers, they are the masons of higher rank, decide to start their temple in this building. The building has more than 400000 sq feet, and everything is beautiful.  

The building has more than 400 rooms; the main rooms are dedicated to different periods of history (Pompeii, Asyrrian, Egyptian) with every single detailed (architectonic, furniture, windows from the era. It was two big auditoriums with perfect acoustic were concerts are hosted as well, almost all the windows and roofs were designed by an alchemist giving you optical illusions (the roof is moving, the painted faces at the windows are looking at you). As any temple, from the outside has a greek style, with the masonic symbols, columns and material of construction. 

I liked that the rooms were dedicated to different ancient civilizations. The library had quotes wrote or painted on the walls, the windows art and colors. The optical illusions of the roof (if you stand on a corner, it looked like the roof was shipping places; the same applies for every corner. I like to call it water illusion). The windows painting and illusions. It was great.


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