North Carolina Masons To Build
New Office And Library Building
Structure Will Be Located
Near Raleigh. To Be Com
pleted During 1956
k By STAFF WRITER
The new office and library build
ing for the Grand Lodge of Ancient,
Free and Accepted Masons of North
Carolina is to be located on a 5
acre site near the city limits of Ra
ieigh on U. S. highways 70 and IS-A
North. The announcement ot the '
award of the contracts was made
today by Watson N. Sherrod, En
field, chairman of the building
committee. J. M. Thompson com
pany, general contractors, Raleigh,
is contractor for all phases of the
work. The exact amount of the con
tract was not given (but is under
stood to be approximately $250,
000.00). Dr. Charles H. Pugh, Gas
tonia, is grand master of Masons
in North Carolina, and Wilbur L.
Mclver, Raleigh, is grand secretary
of the grand lodge.
The new facility will allow expan
sion of the grand lodge activities
and will fill a long felt need for ad
ditional executive office and libra
ry space. Present offices are in the
Land’s building, located at the cor
ner of Fayetteville and Hargett
streets, that building (formerly the
I Masonic temple) having been con
structed by the grand lodge in 1908,
and sold by the grand lodge in
1946. The new building will be of
modern design and employ the lat
est materials in its makeup. There
will be large tinted glare reducing
glass areas on each facade. The
lawn will be serviced by an auto
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matic sprinkler system. The
grounds are to be fully developed
with appropriate trees, shrubbery
and ground cover. Drives, walks,
and parking facilities for both staff
and visitors will be provided.
The ground floor will contain li
brary, museum, archive areas and
mechanical equipment rooms. A
small refreshments area will be
provided for the convenience of of
fice personnel and visitors. The
main floor will house the executive
offices for the grand lodge. The
grand master’s suite, on the south
ern end of the building, contains a
private office and a conference
room for 30 or more persons. The
grand secretary and his staff will
occupy the opposite end of the
building, which contains three in
dividual offices, a conference room
and a large clerical area. A fire
proof vault and a mailing area com
plete the grand secretary’s suite.
Materials and finishes used in the
construction will be permanent and
of the latest design. The basic in
terior color will be blue in keeping
with grand lodge colors. Ceilings
will be accoustical tile with floors
of diamond pattern black and white
terrazzo. Matched grain walnut and
birch panelling is to be used on
walls of executive offices, library,
and grand master’s suite. A bronze
grille with abstractions of Masonic
symbols will divide the entrance
lobby from the main library and
lounge. A special feature of the
lobby will be the bronze emblem
of the Grand Lodge of Ancient,
Free and Accepted Masons of North
Carolina. This emblem will be
mounted in the floor in the center
of the building. Fluorescent light
ing will be provided for the offices.
The library will be equipped
with custom designed furniture,
draperies, and floor covering. An
artist has been selected to execute
murals for the walls depicting vari
ous stages in the 168-year history
of the Grand Lodge of Masns in
North Carolina.
The summer and winter air con
ditioning system is designed for au
tomatic zone control, allowing va
rious parts of the building to be
cooled or heated only when in use.
Air will be filtered and purified
throughout the cooling-heating pro
cesses. Cooling of the entire plant
will be accomplished with a 40-ton
compressor and air handling unit.
Oil fired boiler is provided for heat
ing and domestic hot water.
An informal ground breaking
held recently culminated two years
of planning and designing. Laying
of the cornerstone by the grand
lodge is scheduled to take place in
the early fall, and construction is
expected to be complete in the
spring of 1956.
SAV—1 SAW IT IN' THE TIMES
DR. L. G. SUMNER
CHIROPRACTOR
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9 Tinsley Bldg.
Main St.
Phone 2-6641
NOTICE!
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF TRANSYLVANIA
Under and by virtue of the Ordinances
of the Town of Brevard and orders of
the Board of Aldermen setting the pol
icy for delinquent Water Accounts, all
persons having delinquent water ac
counts with the Town of Brevard are
hereby requested and notified to imme
diately contact the undersigned and
make arrangements to discharge the
same. All water taps for which ac
counts remain unpaid and for which no
arrangements have been made on and
after August 30,1955, will be promptly
shut off and service will not be resum
ed until receipt of payment in full plus
deposit as required by the Ordinances
of the Town of Brevard.
TOWN OF BREVARD
E. H. CORPENING
Water Superintendent
TRANSYLVANIA MASONS, like all
others throughout the state, are elated
over the beginning of construction of the
new office and library building for the
Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Ac
cepted Masons of North Carolina. This
beautiful structure is being erected on a
site near Raleigh and will be ready for
occupancy in 1956.
Two Transylvania
Boys At Crabtree
State Park Camp
Everette Patterson, son of Mrs.
Angus Patterson, of Brevard, and
Cleamen Owen, son of Mr. and Mrs
R. W. Owen, of Balsam Grove, are
spending this week at Crabtree
Creek State park as guest of the
state’s pulp and paper mills.
The camp, near Raleigh, is fi
nanced by four pulp and paper
mills in North Carolina with h&ys
receiving instruction in many
phases of forestry management
The camp is sponsored by the
Southern Pulpwood Conservation
association, of Atlanta, Ga.
Their instructors, graduate for
esters, are teaching the youths how
to best manager the trees on their
farm land.
Mills financing the week - long
camp are International Paper Co.,
the Champion Paper and Fibre Co.,
Riegel Woodlands Corp., and North
Carolina Pulp Co.
The SPCA sponsors nine such
camps throughout the South with
approximately 1,000 boys attending
every summer.
When you think of prescriptions
chink of VARNER’S.—adv.
1954
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had at least 11 or more years driv
ing experience. And men riven
incured far more accidents than
women. There were 1,043 mate
drivers involved in the fatal crack
ups as opposed to only 76 ladj
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