Sacramento Masonic Temple

The Sacramento Masonic Temple, built between 1913 and 1918, is a five-story building on J Street in downtown Sacramento, California. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.Since 1918, the Masonic Temple has hosted countless events from Weddings to Family Celebrations, Meetings & Conferences to Product Launches, and has gained a reputation for its commitment to excellence, outstanding service and uncompromising quality. It is considered one of the most intact architectural period pieces in downtown Sacramento, California, and has been the location of choice for hundreds of weddings, parties, corporate meetings and seminars, political and charity fund raisers and banquets. It has an 8000sqft room which can accommodate up to 499 guests for a sit-down meal.The five story, concrete building maximizes the use of versatile architectural terra cotta, a favorite Arts and Crafts Movement medium, and combines it with fine woods, varied and imaginative stencilwork and gold leaf design in the meeting rooms, and ornamental cast metal work in the lobbies and marble-faced stairways. Terra cotta is found in many forms, including grand stairway balustrades, floor tiles with patterned insets, voluptuous terra cotta balcony brackets, surface textures and forms, and the magnificent figures of Knights Templar at the entrance to the building.Simple, elegant, solid oak wood interior doors are inlaid with contrasting colors of wood, and the treatment unifies the door, cabinets and cupboards throughout the building. Light fixtures reflect a combination of Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau design themes, and appear to have been custom-made to light the special design and ceremonial spaces and rooms on various floors. Some utilize colored glass formed especially to fit into sections of decorative metal frames.