Rising like a stone citadel above a quiet Washington street, the New Masonic Temple on 13th and New York Avenue NW commands the frame of this handsomely colored linen-era postcard — its rusticated granite base, massive Ionic pilasters, and flat-topped cornice surmounted by a crisp American flag. A period touring car sits at the curb below, grounding this image firmly in the early 1920s, when the temple (completed 1908) was still a novelty in the capital's landscape. Published by W. B. Garrison, Inc. of Washington, D.C. (catalogue no. 17702), the card was never mailed or written upon, leaving it in pristine unposted condition. The building depicted is the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, a cornerstone of American Masonic history and a frequent subject of souvenir card publishers of the era. The warm ochre and sky-blue palette typical of hand-colored white-border cards of this period gives the granite façade an almost golden warmth that photographs of the era could never achieve.