Rising like a limestone cathedral of fraternal ambition above Detroit's Temple Avenue, the New Masonic Temple captured here in a vivid hand-colored linen card was — and remains — the largest Masonic temple in the world, completed in 1926 just weeks before this card was postmarked on August 20th of that year. Architect George D. Mason designed the Gothic-inspired colossus with over a thousand rooms, a 4,400-seat auditorium, a drill hall, a rooftop garden, and enough marble to stagger the imagination; the building cost approximately $5 million during its construction through the Roaring Twenties. The card shows the temple's imposing limestone façade flanked by mature elms and a prominent civic monument, with period automobiles parked along the street below. On the back, a writer identified as Dot dashes off a breezy note to a woman named Wm (likely addressing Mrs. William) in Port Huron, mentioning working until July 2 and heading home, and candidly worrying about someone who "will be lonesome" — a small domestic drama preserved in pencil across nine decades.