North Easton, Massachusetts
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....