Published In:
Ann Arbor News, August 6, 1973
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Masonic Temple Was Dedicated in 1925

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 19, 1957
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NEW FRONT: Completion of a major alteration project at the Masonic Temple building at 327 S. Fourth Ave. finds the steps reversed from the past. Before, the center steps led up and the side steps led down. Inside, the Bendix Aviation Corp. has partitioned the basement into office space. The firm, which has a lease on space in the building to Dec. 31, 1958, with an option for renewal, also will utilize the third floor and the auditorium. The fourth floor will remain for the lodges, to which an estimated 3,000 members belong. A buffet area has been created on the lodge level, as Bendix will use the current clubrooms on the third floor. A spokesman for the 327 S. Fourth Ave. Corp., which operates the building, said that Bendix is the first commercial firm to occupy the Temple since it was opened in 1925. Besides the front alteration, the entrances to the parking lots on the sides have been enlarged.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 17, 1952
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Another curb will be bent around the base of a tree when workmen widening S. Fourth Ave. reach the elm (left) in front of the YWCA. Sidestepping construction something like the example at right (on Eighth St. between W. Liberty and W. Washington Sts.) will be necessary -- thanks to the City Council's spare-that-tree action last night. The Public Works Department had ruled that the tree in front of the YWCA must go to preserve a straight cub line. But the Council, which has intervened previously in behalf of ill-placed trees, ruled that the elm shall live and the curb shall bend.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 24, 1940
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TRUNKS UP! -- AND DOWN THEY COME: Elephants of the Grotto circus enter and leave the Masonic temple by the front door, not because they are aristocrats of the ring but because that's the only entrance large enough for them. With the elephants are: (front to back) Will H. Hill, owner of the animals, Harrison H. Caswell, Grotto monarch and Earl G. Wilson, circus manager. The circus ends tonight.