Inside the downtown Milwaukee Masonic Center before it becomes a hotel: Slideshow


The gray limestone walls facing Van Buren Street and inward facing stained-glass windows make the Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center a bit forbidding to the surrounding downtown Milwaukee streets.

But new owners who plan to convert and expand the building into a 220-room hotel want to transform that longtime stand-offish structure into a hot spot for downtown residents and visitors, said Eric Nordeen, principal with Ascendant Holdings LLC. A tour through the inside, which is much more colorful…

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