A 1955 special election notice names the Masonic Temple itself as the Precinct 30 polling place, resuming a civic role the building had played since the 1930s. The same fall, a “good, clean, established” grocery market was offered for sale at 1100 Harvard.
Voting downstairs, groceries at the corner, apartments above, Masons on Monday nights: at mid-century the building was less a landmark than a small civic ecosystem.
The source
Houston Chronicle, Oct. 10, 1955, Sec. D: a page of classified ads, cited for the grocery-market listing at 1100 Harvard, which could not be found in this copy.
Also: The polling-place notice: Houston Chronicle, Sept. 1955.
