The Native Sons of the Golden West (NSGW), a nativist fraternal organization started in CA in 1875, built this five-story "parlor" on the former site of Temple Obahai Shalome at 414 Mason Street in San Francisco, CA, in 1895-1896. Architect A.C. Lutgens won a building competition sponsored by the NSGW, a commission costing $82,000 for a Class C building. According to a NSGW document, the building had "...a large assembly hall, the offices of the Grand Secretary, the Library and its Reading Room and seven lodge rooms." In 1896, a William Keith painting, "The Heritage of the Native Sons," was donated to the NSGW Parlor; the painted illustrated a fecund valley landscape, but was lost in the Great Fire of 04/19/1906.

The NSGW paid the Congregation Obahai Shalome $42,000 to obtain its site.

Demolished. This fraternal organization building burned in the Great San Francisco Fire of 04/19/1906.

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