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The House of the Temple is a Masonic temple, museum, and library in Washington, D.C., United States. It serves as the headquarters of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A., and is located at 1733 16th Street, N.W., in the Dupont Circle neighborhood.

Noted architect John Russell Pope designed The Temple. Pope is noted for also designing the National Archives and Records Administration building, the Jefferson Memorial, and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art. Pope modeled The House of the Temple after the tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Construction began in 1911, and the building was completed and dedicated four years later. The building's design won Pope the Gold Medal of the Architectural League of New York, and in the 1920s, a panel of architects named it "one of the three best public buildings" in the United States. The Temple also holds one of the largest collections of materials rela...

I guess I've had an off-and-on love affair with photography my whole life. My father was always taking pictures and movies when I was a kid growing up on Long Island, NY in the 1950s-60s, and he gave me my own Kodak Brownie camera when I was around 6 years old. I remember using it to take pictures of family events and a trip to Washington DC, back in 1958. I still have some of the pictures ....... somewhere. Photography moved to the back burner during high school, college, and law school, but I picked it up again after I graduated law school in 1979, moved to Washington DC, and began my legal career with the federal government. Being alone in a new city, I would take my camera wherever I went, and I was soon making my own prints in...