El Paso Scottish Rite Temple
Item
- Title
- El Paso Scottish Rite Temple
- Creator
- Herbert Miller Greene
- City
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Address
- Missouri and Santa Fe
- GPS
- 31.760073, -106.492796
- Country
- United States
- Date Created
- 1921
- Century
- 20th Century
- Classification
- Architecture and City Planning
- Style/Period
- Early Revival
- Art Deco
- Cultural Context
- American
- Materials
- terra cotta
- Techniques
- Bricklaying
- Description
- sphinx sculpture at entrance, One of two sphinxes that sit at the entrance of the temple., The Sphinxes were cast in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, by the Federal-Seaboard Terra Cotta Company (closed in 1968). Each sphinx is 10 ft long and weighs 4,000 pounds. The El Paso Scottish Rite Temple was the first to have sphinxes. They are the largest single-cast Terra Cotta sculptures in the world.
- Source
- Elizabeth Sasser
- Photographer
- Elizabeth Sasser
- Rights Holder
- © Elizabeth Sasser
- Texas Tech University Libraries
- Access Rights
- Users must request permission from the copyright holder for all use in publications, including theses and dissertations.
Herbert Miller Greene, “El Paso Scottish Rite Temple”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed May 9, 2026, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/29111