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A decade into statehood, Bartlesville's bustling 12-year-old Masonic Lodge adopted an ambitious plan to build a six-story home, leasing out the bottom five floors to sustain its operations.
Although the United States had just thrown itself full-force into The Great War, two decades of oil exploration had generated a powerhouse economy around that northeastern Oklahoma prairie community, one tapped by many prominent Masons, including Worshipful Master Howard Weber, discoverer of the Weber Pool. So the lodge commissioned architect Walton Everman to craft a U-shaped building of brick and stone, increasing the height to nine stories as Weber secured a lasting tenant in Empire Oil and Gas, one of 16 companies owned by budding New York oil magnate Harry L. Doherty.See the full content of this document
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These Walls: Rogers State University in Bartlesville
The $300,000 project ($3.77 million adjusted for inflation) opened in 1919 as the tallest building in Bartlesville. As the Masons settled into the ninth floor, the other eig...
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