Design for New Scottish Rite Cathedral to Cost $2,000,000 Accepted by Committee

From The Indianapolis Star, Friday, June 5, 1925:  The building committee of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Indianapolis, has accepted the design for the most monumental Scottish Rite cathedral in the world.  The plan by Indianapolis architect George F. Schreiber is of an immense, three-story Gothic structure of blue-gray Bedford limestone on N. Meridian St facing the War Memorial Plaza. Covering most of the block between North and Walnut Streets, the $2,000,000 (2024: $36,531,415) building will have a tower extending 220 feet above street level, illuminated by interior flood lights of changing colors.  Eight architects, who were members of the lodge, submitted designs; this one was chosen as best expressing the spirit and accomplishments of the fraternal organization.  Completion is expected within two and a half years and will mark the realization of the lodge’s golden jubilee.

“Design for New Scottish Rite Cathedral to Cost $2,000,000 Accepted by Committee,” The Indianapolis Star, 5 June 1925, p. 1:3