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Addendum <br />APEX Art and Culture Center Nomina3on <br /> <br />E. Property Descrip3on <br /> <br />The building presently opera3ng as APEX Art and Culture Center (APEX), be<er known as the <br />Masonic Temple, was built on a grand scale in 1921 by the Knights of Columbus as a community <br />center and war memorial to those of the Catholic men's organiza3on who served in the First <br />World War. An expression of the Second Renaissance Revival Style, the building was designed by <br />Charles F.W. Lundberg and C. Frank Mahon of Tacoma, specialists in Catholic ecclesias3cal <br />architecture. The building was taken over by the Masonic Order in 1928, and it was well <br />maintained by the Masons as a lodge hall un3l 1992, when Sharon Wilcox and Alan Hemmat <br />purchased the building and operated it as Club Broadway un3l 2012. In 2022, John Carswell <br />purchased the property with the intent to build a graffi3 and urban art museum showcasing The <br />DogTown Collec3on, the world’s largest collec3on of graffi3 and urban art on canvas. Since May <br />2022, the vision for the building has expanded to meet the needs of the community, con3nuing <br />the mission of building’s construc3on more than a century ago. <br /> <br />The APEX building is located in the SE of Sec3on 19, T. 29N., R.5E., of the Willame<e Meridian. It <br />is situated on Lots 18 through 22 of Block 612 of Rucker's First Plat of Evere< and is oriented on <br />its corner site to the south, its principal front façade on Evere< Avenue. In its se_ng on the <br />periphery of the Central District, it is surrounded by one and two-story structures and Village <br />Theatre directly across Evere< Avenue from the main entrance. In the immediate <br />neighborhood, it is the mass of the APEX building that visually divides the commercial zone on <br />the south from the residen3al district to the north. Rectangular in plan, the APEX building is five <br />stories in height atop a high basement. Its Evere< Avenue facade measures 120 feet, and the <br />side eleva3ons extend 80 feet. The building is of ordinary masonry construc3on on a concrete <br />founda3on. It has a roof of frame construc3on and brick exterior walls with red facing brick, <br />referred to as locally-manufactured "burlap brick” on the Evere< and Wetmore Avenue <br />eleva3ons and the southernmost bay of the west, or alley eleva3on. <br /> <br />A strictly formal composi3on, the facade is organized into nine bays, four on either side of a <br />central entrance bay. The boldly rus3cated basement, an effect of plastered greystone, or <br />concrete, is lighted by eight small pairs of sash windows aligned with bays of the principal <br />stories. The entrance is sheltered by a fixed canopy of wood in the form of a barrel vault. Its <br />soffit is paneled, and it is supported at the springing line by pairs of colossal consoles of iron <br />filigree. Beneath the canopy are a fanlight and a recessed portal framed by concrete paneled <br />jambs. Either leaf of the double-leaf oak door has three ver3cal panels termina3ng in Gothic <br />arches – a stylis3c treatment of ecclesias3cal origins which is unrelated to other mo3fs of the <br />facade, but which is nonetheless appropriate to the building's original use as a Knights of <br />Columbus hall. Above the basement cornice, the facade is divided into three strata of brick work <br />set off by string courses and rows of bricks laid ver3cally, or on end. The first of these strata, <br />serving as the visual base, extends from the water table to the springing line of fanlight arches <br />of the first story windows. It consists of burnt headers and bricks of subtly contras3ng color laid