Masonic Temple
(now a facility of the Webster City Church of Christ)
906 Des Moines Street
Webster City, Iowa 50595-2138

Designer unknown, 1926

An eclectic building, part early-20th-century-school-building, part Moderne, part Prairie. The most obvious Prairie bits are the vestigial remains of the Larkin Building capitals, as seen below.

References
• Gebhard, David, and Mansheim, Gerald: Buildings of Iowa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 449.

  

 

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