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4 years ago The Masonic Temple, consummated in 1873, also necessitated special underpinning when cracks appeared in its ornate interior plaster. Designed byjames H. Windrim,john 'lOrrey Windrim's fdtticF this serves as the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of F\ennsylvaiUa. The Romanesque- style building is among the largest Firemason lodges in the world and is considered the preeminent Masonic temple of American Freemasonry. An old tunnel was supposed to have connected the Masonic Temple with City Hall, although the website of the Pennsylvania Masons claims that "there are no passable tunnels that connect [the Temple] to any other building," likely referring to City Hall. Maybe the tunnel is no longer "passable" because it was severed when the Commuter Rail Tunnel was built.
a huge atrium filters daylight down to the statiion's track level thirty-five feet below the street there a large abstract wall mural of a forest - fabricated with 250000 ceramic tiles arranged by computer program - enlivens the tunnel walls. This was the world' s largest mosaic mural in the 1980s. The Objective was to bring some colorful above-ground scenery into the subterranean space. But the nine-hundred-foot-long mural was to designed to be seen from a moving train, which does not occur at Jefferson Station, so the forest effect is hardly perceptible.