The House of the Temple is the home of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rites Masons, and is not located at the point of the triangle in the map, but was positioned in a spot where it makes a truncated pyramid image from that triangle, just as the HOT features a truncated 13 tiered pyramid on it's top.

The building was designed by John Russel Pope, who also designed the National Archives Building (sphere 7) and the Jefferson Memorial (sphere 10). It was built in 1915.

Albert Pike

In addition to having held the position of Grand Commander of the Southern Jourisdiction of the Scottish Rites (SJSR) Masons for 32 years (1859-91), Albert Pike supervised the reconstruction of the Rituals of the 33 degrees of the Rites, compiled Morals and Dogma, considered the handbook of the Rites, and is the only Confederate to be honored with a statue in Washington, DC.

It was under Pike's watch that the SJSR moved it's headquarters from Charleston, SC (33 degrees of latitude) to the first House of the Temple in Washington, DC, located at the corner of 3rd Avenue and D Street, where Pike died in 1891, and the location of the Pike statue.

By an act of Congress his ashes were permitted to be there placed in a crypt in the HOT.