After a fire broke out in Harper’s Caddo Street Livery Stable on April 19, 1895, it quickly spread across six blocks of East Main Street from the Santa Fe Railroad tracks to Washington, then known as Springer Street, destroying eighty-six businesses, including the newly built three story brick Masonic Temple. The temple had stood on the south side of Main Street between Mill Street and Washington at the site of a now non existent Court Street. While a new building was under construction, Lodge meetings were held at the Odd Fellows Hall on Washington Avenue, and the first published notice for meetings in the new Masonic Temple at Springer and Main Streets appeared on May 11, 1896. The First National Bank, whose nearby building had also been destroyed in the fire, occupied the first two stories of the new structure, while the Masons met on the top floor. The building stood on land owned by the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations, and because federal law then barred white ownership of land in Indian Territory except through tribal intermarriage, the bank did not purchase the land beneath it until January 15, 1902, when it acquired a patent from the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations for $130.00, with the Masonic Lodge owning the building and the bank owning the land. In 1918 the First National Bank moved to a new building at Main and A Street NW, the land was sold to B.A. Simpson, and C.L. Anderson purchased it the same year and transferred it to his wife, Nettie. At that point the Mason Lodge took over the entire building and converted the top floor into a ballroom used for social events, including dance classes. In April 1930 the Masonic Temple moved to what is now the Ardmoreite Building on Broadway, and the old building was sold to Sara Green and Nettie Anderson, who soon leased it to Steele Drug, a longtime landmark on the ground floor. During restoration in the 1970s, lightning struck the stone cap at the top of the building and left a large jagged gap in the crown. The building was purchased in April 2001 by the American Law Firm.