King Solomon's Temple

Ezekiel-temple.com and Isaac Newton have similar temple designs which are based on the book of Ezekiel. Richardson used the temple descriptions from Exodus, Kings, Chronicles, and Ezekiel. II Chronicles throws a curveball when it says the porch in front is 120 cubits high (204 feet). The Jewish Historian Josephus claims that the temple was 120 cubits tall. So was it 30 cubits tall or 120 cubits tall? Coincidentally the towers for the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh and the Albany City Hall are 20x20 cubit squares and 120 cubits tall. There are pretty good drawings of the ACC online and the tower is definitely 20x20 cubits and the base is 60x20 cubits. The ACC includes the two pillars Jachin and Boaz and the three gates to get into the inner court. Each entrance is 10 cubits wide (17 feet), the same distance as the gate of the Ames Gate Lodge. The distance from the east gate to the "temple" is exactly 100 cubits (170 feet). The courtyard doesn't contain the altar...

According to Wikipedia, Julia Morgan was responsible for   700 buildings. The very first three of her buildings I looked up on google have interesting measurements. Not as advanced as Richardson and Wright, more at the level of Sullivan, but the evidence is below, you decide. The very first building I looked up, the Chapel of the Chimes. 34' wide by 68' long (20x40 cubits) Close enough to 68' 2nd building I picked randomly, Katherine Delmar Burke School, also very close to 20x40 cubits: Third building I picked randomly - Girton Hall, Berkeley - 20 cubit porch: Hearst Castle; 34x34 foot  room at the back  with the fire place.

Winn Memorial  Library, H.H. Richardson designed  a 60 cubit long and 40 cubit wide cross like he did for Trinity Church but the location of the holy of holies is different. Instead of stacking it on top, he attached it to the end of the 60x20 long end of the cross. It’s 20x20x20 but it’s an octagon. 2x2x2=8 sides. This is a theory on why the dome of the rock, where Solomon’s temple used to be, is 8 sided. Maimonides of the 12 th  century had some commentary on the temple. He writes about 3 cubit projections into the temple sanctuary spaced apart. “Each cell had three entrances: one to the cell on the right, one to the cell above it, one to the winding stairwell, one towards the cell with the wicket, and one to the temple.” I have a floor plan for Winn and the projections are exactly 3 cubits (5 feet).   Using the stacked cells to fit out a  library  is clever, Richardson used this same concept at  Ames   Free  Library (North Easton) and...

Ames Gate Lodge I think that the gate lodge is the north gate to Solomon’s temple. Ezekiel gives us the description of the north gate. “Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits (13’-6” – I measured of 15’-9”)” “And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side. And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits (17’ – I measured 16’-8”); and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits (22’ – I measured 24’)” - so technically only one side of the three have the same measure and the posts are not the same size. The gate eastward "the length therof was fifty cubits (85' - I measured 78') and the breadth five and twenty cubits (42.5' - I measured 42'-11") “and the little chambers were six cubits (10.2’ – I measured 10’-9”), and six cubits on that side” “He made also posts of threescore cubits (102’ – the cyli...

Two 20x20x120 cubit towers designed by Frank Lloyd Wright were the  Price Tower  and the  Johnson Museum Headquarters . Unity Temple: Johnson Wax Headquarters in Wisconsin: Two intersecting 30 cubit diameter circles create a 20 cubit long vesica piscis Jesus fish  ( knights templar Chartres Cathedral ).  After a 40 cubit long sanctuary we enter a 60 cubit tall 30 cubit diameter cylinder. In the book of Kings, Solomon’s temple was 60x30 cubits. And once again using 20.4 inches as the cubit, these dimensions are exact: Ezekiel 41: "And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst" Wright loves the 20/40/60 cubit vesica piscis. This is evident in some of his later houses, i.e. the Wilbur Pearce House and the Rayward House.. The bottom of...

  Oakes Ames Memorial Hall - North Easton was designed by architect H.H. Richardson. Oakes Ames Memorial Hall was designed for the Freemason Lodge of North Easton. H.H. Richardson was a Freemason and built in the style of King Solomon's Temple from the specifications in the Bible. Richardson built Solomon’s Temple according to the specs in the book of Kings. I looked up the building specs and applied the Hebrew long cubit. Memorial Hall is 60-by-20 cubits, the second level, the sanctuary, is 40-by-20 cubits and the attic, the holy of holies, is exactly 34-by-34 feet (20-by-20 cubits). Those exact dimensions replicate Solomon’s Temple. Most people think Solomon’s Temple was a single-story structure. No one knows for sure what the temple actually looked like, but the Bible says there was a winding staircase on the right side of the building. Richardson stacked the holy of holies directly above the sanctuary and connected them with a spiral staircase on the right side of the building....