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 Parcucci’s Detroit Masonic Temple Lobby

Anthony Di Lorenzo, New York ornamentalist, held two contracts for interior decoration in the Masonic Temple - #1 (Corrado Parducci) $13,160.00 and #2 for $9,680.00.  Thomas Di Lorenzo’s contract for interior decoration amounted to $59,074.00.  Joe Parducci worked in the New York firm of Ricci, DiLorenzo and Aldolino as a very young man.  When the firm broke up, he stayed with DiLorenzo who was an ornamentalist and Joe was the sculptor.  Joe met Albert Kahn in New York City who urged him to come to Detroit and work on two bank buildings on Griswold Street .  Joe came to Detroit to work for only a couple of months.  Anthony DiLorenzo had some work here and Kahn wanted Parducci.  He worked indirectly for Kahn through DiLorenzo.  Other work came from Detroit architects Donaldson & Meier, Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, and George D. Mason.

The first 8 months, 1924 to middle of 1925, Joe worked under DiLorenzo.  The Masonic Temple contracts were DiLorenzos’ jobs until Parducci bought them out for $5,000.00.

 William F. Gurche had the contract for the exterior sculpture.  Henry Steinman, a New York sculptor working in the Detroit studio of William F. Gurche, sculpted the Tylers on the four towers of the Ritual Building .  Leo William Friedlander, a New York sculptor and 1913 winner of the Prix de Rome, was paid $1,100.00 to sculpt the three figures – King Solomon, King Hiram and Hiram Abbif – over the Ritual Tower entrance.

All the light fixtures were custom-made by the Sterling Bronze Company of New York . The lighting fixtures in the lodges, hallways, and foyers were designed for the tasks at hand.   

Corrado Giuseppe Parducci's lobby design was reportedly adapted from an old castle in Palermo, Sicily . Parducci did model the 5’ bronze floor plaque depicting Strength, Truth and Beauty.  He sculpted the two plaques in the stone walls of the interior stairs of the Scottish Rite entrance.  These two are repeated in the lobby as plaster plaques.