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<br />On the second story, the original men’s lounge, that operated as an off-track be_ng site for <br />Emerald Downs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, is now the Green Room, restored to its <br />grandeur as a comfortable lounge area. The fireplace is again opera3onal, now using natural <br />gas. The room is available for private rentals and is also made available to entertainers who are <br />performing on the third-floor stage accessible by a private stairway. Also on the second floor is <br />the original library with built-in bookshelves. This room that faces Evere< Avenue is being <br />restored as a library and mee3ng room, and will be available for rentals in 2024. Also facing <br />Evere< Avenue is the original dance studio, which was converted to a bar in the 1990s as part of <br />Club Broadway. Renova3ons have started on this space to make it beau3ful once again using <br />natural light from the front windows. Modern bathrooms were added to the second floor for <br />be<er accessibility. <br /> <br />The third floor is comprised of two grand spaces. The Gatsby Room, located on the south side of <br />the building, was once the Grand Lodge Hall used by the Masonic orders. It later became a main <br />dining room with Club Broadway and is now a rentable space for the public. The Gatsby Room, <br />which mimics the opulence of the Roaring 20s, has a covered plaster ceiling from which hangs a <br />15-foot French crystal chandelier. Indirect ligh3ng emana3ng from behind a cornice carried by <br />colossal Corinthian pilasters is controlled by a reostat for a variety of effects. The original 1920s <br />rheostat is s3ll being used today. There is a small catering kitchen adjacent to the Gatsby Room. <br /> <br />A secondary lodge hall, once used primarily by Masonic youth groups, is now Kings Hall, a large <br />theater hall on the north side of the building with standing capacity for approximately 800 <br />people. Complete with stage and balcony, the space doubles as a ballroom. It has boxed ceiling <br />beams, classical architrave, and imagina3ve, large-scale Ionic pilasters. The wall to the Red <br />Room, which was a smaller theatre room on the west side of the building was removed in the <br />1990s, crea3ng a larger entertainment space. There is also a women’s restroom on this floor. <br /> <br />The fourth floor houses a men’s restroom, as well as balcony spaces for both The Gatsby Room <br />and Kings Hall. There are small office and storage spaces on this floor and access through a <br />small staircase to the third floor. Above it, the a_c story, smaller in plan and finished with <br />tongue-in-groove wall boards, contains the original lockers from the Masonic Commandery. <br /> <br />In the early 1990s, when Hemmat purchased the building, the City required significant upgrades <br />to the building to bring it to code. Ci3ng the building’s transi3on from being used mainly by <br />fraternal organiza3ons to being used by the public, Hemmat was required to install a full <br />sprinkler system throughout the building, including the addi3on of a standpipe. Fire doors were <br />installed, as were an emergency exit and external staircase from the third floor on the north <br />side of the building. In the early 2000s, Hemmat added a three-story hydraulic elevator that is <br />s3ll in use today. This provides ADA accessibility and equipment load-in and load-out. <br /> <br />Overall, the building is s3ll undergoing efforts to restore several of its spaces to a style more <br />representa3ve of the 1920s. Throughout this process, every effort has been made to repurpose <br />and reuse original fixtures including ligh3ng fixtures from the second floor lobby, as well as the