Masonic Temple

Ted Flaxman, the local architect, said the European modernist Erich Mendelsohn shaped his thinking, above all Mendelsohn's curved forms. The Werner Company built the two-story brick building at 1805 Creswell Avenue in 1937. It first counted as a contributing property when the Highland Historic District was designated on February 19, 1987, and it was listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places on June 10, 1991. It stands on a lot of less than an acre in the Highland neighborhood.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 1.2 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• Spring Street Museum — 1.4 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 1.8 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 2.5 mi
  A free art museum and 40 acres of azalea gardens in Shreveport, founded in 1946 on Rodessa oil money, with Remington and Russell, an Audubon folio and no photography allowed.

More markers nearby

• Old Agudath Achim Synagogue — 0.3 mi
• Josh Logan Home — 0.6 mi
• Pete Youree Confederate Monument — 0.8 mi
• Centenary College of Louisiana — 0.9 mi