The red brick Santa Fe station was completed in 1903. Besides passenger service, it also housed a Harvey House Restaurant. The Harvey girls lived upstairs. It now houses a restaurant and a model railroad museum.

Dominating Guthrie’s skyline is the largest Scottish Rite Masonic Temple in the world. It was erected in the 1920’s with rooms designed to recreate important periods of architecture including Egyptian, Assyrian, Pompeian, Italian Renaissance, French Gothic, English and ancient Roman. Click here for a virtual tour.

No expense was spared, as evidenced by the marble flooring, custom woven carpets to match the painted ceilings, imported crystal chandeliers and hundreds of stained glass windows.

The attention to detail was astounding. The chandeliers in the Assyrian Room depict fire pots which were use in the Assyrian homes for heating, light and cooking. The upper walls are stained to suggest the smoke and soot from the fires.

Danny especially liked the Gothic library with its beautiful oak cabinetry and glass fronted bookcases.

The colors found in the Egyptian room have stayed amazingly bright. The designs were painted in the Egyptian manner, by hand grinding minerals to a fine powder and mixing with egg whites.

The Convention Hall is where the state legislature held two sessions prior to the relocation of the state capital to Oklahoma City in 1910. The Masons purchased the hall from the state and then proceeded to build their temple.

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