through these door

 

These interior doors once led to the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons Of Texas Lodge #1023.  Now the location of the Mason Temple is an empty shell of the brick building built in 1929 which housed the Freemasons .   In March 1835 the first Masonic meeting held in Texas for the purpose of establishing a lodge in Texas was under an oak tree near the town of Brazoria.  Since then many notable and ornate edifices  around the world have been constructed by the fraternity for their meetings. The Spur 1929 lodge was probably fancy for its time; the new Mason Hall, constructed down the street in 1997, is a steel building with a plain brick façade--hardly befitting of the stonemasons who crafted King Solomon's Temple.

 

Spur, Texas

8.16.2014