Lucas Gregg
ARLH 375: Savannah Architecture & Urbanism
Prof. Gobel
Fall 2015
With the rich tradition of Freemasonry deeply embedded in both process creating great architecture and in the founding of the United States itself, the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, at 341 Bull Street, speaks to Savannah’s reflection of this and to its relationship to the urban landscape around it. The SRMT was originally envisioned as a home base for various chapters of masons that previously did not have a permanent meeting place. The only other lodge in the area was the famous Solomon Lodge, which was founded by Oglethorpe in 1734 and which didn’t have the capacity that by this time in 1895 was desperately
