The Danish Order of Freemasons had moved between various addresses and at the beginning of the 20th century was based in Klerkegade in Copenhagen.

Martin Nyrop, architect of Copenhagen City Hall and himself a Freemason, sat on the panel of judges.

Built to a rather austere Neoclassical design, the Freemasons' Hall is a large grey block.

The front toward Blegdamsvej is dominated by an over-dimensioned entrance section flanked by two monumental columns, which are 16 metres tall and weigh 72 tons each.

Reacting to an excess of detail in Historicism, Neoclassicism had made a comeback in Danish architecture in about 1915 and lasted until the mid-1930s.