Royal Arch Masonic Lodge

Austin, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The Royal Arch Masonic Lodge in Austin, Texas is a three-story beige brick Masonic temple designed in 1926 by Texas architects J. B. Davies and William E. Ketchum in the Beaux-Arts style. Built as a fraternal meeting hall, it earned recognition as a city historic landmark in 2000 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, where it was praised for both its long continuous use by the Masonic Lodge and its architectural merit as a well-preserved early twentieth-century Beaux-Arts fraternal building. In 2019, the Historic Landmark Commission of Austin approved a major renovation and expansion project that would preserve and refurbish the original structure while constructing a tower above it, with the Masons to retain a 99-year lease and exclusive use of two floors for their ceremonies.