Concerts / Cass Corridor
Masonic Temple
A Gothic-scale Detroit landmark with towers, performance spaces, and concert nights inside a vast complex.
01 / The story of this place
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Designed by George D. Mason, Detroit’s Masonic Temple is an unusually large example of Masonic architecture. Meeting rooms, theaters, and event spaces fill the complex behind its fortress-like exterior. Different rooms create very different experiences, so the exact venue named on a concert ticket matters. The building remains a distinctive setting within Detroit’s music and event scene.
- The monumental Gothic exterior
- Distinct theater and concert spaces
- Scheduled architectural tours
Famous Detroiters
Famous people tied to this place 3
Lexicon entries for the people who lived, worked, performed or liked to spend time here.
- Ruth Laredo 1937–2005 · classical pianist
Related place
Where eight-year-old Ruth heard Vladimir Horowitz play Scriabin in 1946 and resolved to become a concert pianist.
- Franco Ghione 1886–1964 · conductor, violinist
Performed here
The huge Cass Corridor Masonic building whose theater became the orchestra's refuge after it left Orchestra Hall in 1939.
- Corrado Parducci 1900–1981 · architectural sculptor
Worked here
The world's largest Masonic temple; Parducci carried out lobby decoration under contract to Anthony Di Lorenzo.
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03 / Events
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