Masonic Lodge- Euroka Morning Star Lodge, 10 Skene Street, STAWELL

The Euroka Morning Star Masonic Temple at 10 Skene Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar eclectic Greek Revival style. These qualities include the substantial streamlined temple front with the projecting rendered portico supported by paired, square and round Tuscan columns and pilasters. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the side wing of similar design and construction, plain entablatures, solid parapets, large plain temple front pediment, rendered plinths, central double door opening under the portico with four panelled double doors and rendered moulded architraves, timber framed 8 paned and double hung windows, rendered window sills and rectangular brackets, face brick wall construction, single storey height, and the gable roof form behind the main temple front.

The Euroka Morning Star Masonic Temple at 10 Skene Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of Freemasonry in Stawell from 1926. In particular, the building has associations with the Euroka Morning Star Masonic Lodge, which was established in 1903 upon the amalgamation of the former Euroka and Morning Star Lodges that had formed in Stawell in 1861 and 1883 respectively.

The Euroka Morning Star Masonic Temple at 10 Skene Street is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by sections of the Stawell community for cultural reasons.

Overall, the Euroka Morning Star Masonic Temple at 10 Skene Street is of LOCAL significance.

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Religion

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Temple