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Type : ORIENT DE DETROIT, NEW MASONIC TEMPLE
Date: 1922
Mint name / Town : DETROIT
Metal : copper
Diameter : 34,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,53 g.
Edge : Lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Présence de coups et rayures
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : NEW MASONIC TEMPLE / DETROIT.
Obverse description : façade du temple, au dessus rayonnant, compas équerre entrecroisés avec en interne la lettre G.
Reverse
Reverse legend : CORNER STONE LAYING / SEPT. 18 / 1922.
Reverse description : Plein champ, compas équerre graduée entrecroisés avec en interne la lettre G rayonnante.
Commentary
L'association maçonnique de temple a été incorporée à Detroit en 1894. Il est entré dans son premier temple, sur la rue de boulevard de Lafayette au début, en 1896. Devenant trop grand pour ces quarts, l'association a acheté la terre sur la rue de Bagg (maintenant avenue de temple) pour construire un nouveau temple qui inclurait également un théâtre public. La mobilisation de fonds pour la construction du bâtiment a soulevé $2.5 millions, et d'inauguration a eu lieu le thanksgiving Day, 1920, que la pierre angulaire a été placée le 19 septembre 1922, à l'aide de la même truelle que George Washington plaçait la pierre angulaire du capitole des États-Unis dans DC de Washington. Le bâtiment était consacré le thanksgiving Day, 1926.
The Masonic Temple Association was incorporated in Detroit in 1894. It moved into its first temple, on Lafayette Boulevard, in 1896. Outgrowing these quarters, the association purchased land on Bagg Street (now Temple Avenue) to build a new temple that would also include a public theater. Fundraising for the building raised $2.5 million, and the groundbreaking took place on Thanksgiving Day, 1920. The cornerstone was placed on September 19, 1922, using the same trowel that George Washington used to place the cornerstone of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. The building was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day, 1926.
The Masonic Temple Association was incorporated in Detroit in 1894. It moved into its first temple, on Lafayette Boulevard, in 1896. Outgrowing these quarters, the association purchased land on Bagg Street (now Temple Avenue) to build a new temple that would also include a public theater. Fundraising for the building raised $2.5 million, and the groundbreaking took place on Thanksgiving Day, 1920. The cornerstone was placed on September 19, 1922, using the same trowel that George Washington used to place the cornerstone of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. The building was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day, 1926.
Historical background
FREEMASONRY
The compass and the square are very often associated in an ambivalent symbol of balance: fixity and mobility, passive and active, matter and spirit.. The compass is the tool of the Creator and of the great Architect of the Universe. The spacing of the branches of the compass obeys precise rules and varies according to the three degrees: apprentice, companion, master. The Napoleonic era, in the activity of lodges as in that of many groups, saw a flowering after the terrible years of the revolutionary period. Masonic activity, rid of its republican theories and firmly controlled by a Grand-Master appointed by the Emperor, experienced a vigor in unity never found since.. It is considered that each regiment, each garrison, each city had its Lodge. The testimonies that the sumptuous tokens of the period leave us show that these lodges were rich and influential.. The symbolism is sought after, without comparison with the later eras, which were much more conventional, even bland or destitute at the beginning of the 20th century.. Freemasonry had more than a thousand lodges spread over one hundred and thirty departments and more than sixty thousand Brothers.
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