Kaleva Temple

The Kaleva Temple is a commercial building located on Trimountain Avenue in South Range, Michigan.

[2] However, he was unable to complete construction, and sold the partially finished building to the Kalevan Retaret, a Finnish society.

[2] The Kalevan Retaret, or Knights of Kaleva, was a secret society begun in 1898 in Belt, Montana and named after the Kalevala, a collection of epic Finnish poems.

[3] The Kaleva Temple is a two-story sandstone commercial block, essentially rectangular in plan but with an angled entrance at the east side.

The Kaleva Temple still represents the commercial and social dynamics at play in South Range during the early twentieth century.