SF Masonic Auditorium, Concert auditorium in Nob Hill, San Francisco, United States

The SF Masonic Auditorium is a 1958 building by architect Albert Roller atop Nob Hill, with a pale grey stone facade whose upper wall holds Emile Norman's frieze of four servicemen and a global tug of war. Inside, the auditorium has a dark domed ceiling, black stage floor and red curtain backdrop; the Grand Lodge offices occupy the upper floors.

Freemasonry reached California just before the 1849 Gold Rush, and a Grand Lodge was constituted in Sacramento by 1850. Its San Francisco building at Post and Montgomery Streets, begun in 1861 and finished in 1863, was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake; a replacement at 25 Van Ness Avenue by Bliss & Faville opened in 1913. The Grand Lodge moved to this Albert Roller-designed building at 1111 California Street in 1958.

The north facade carries Emile Norman's frieze inscribed "Dedicated to our Masonic Brethren who died in the cause of freedom", with stylized servicemen of the four Armed Services branches and a global tug of war. Inside the lobby, Norman's mosaic window mixes natural and Masonic themes and holds gravel and soil from all 58 California counties.

The auditorium stands at 1111 California Street on top of Nob Hill, with a five-level public parking garage in its basement; the garage entrance is signed off the street below the facade. The main entrance faces north, where the Emile Norman frieze runs above the doors. The Henry Wilson Coil Library and Museum of Freemasonry occupies the mezzanine.

The lobby's mosaic window by Emile Norman mixes natural and Masonic themes and holds gravel and soil from each of California's 58 counties, a detail easy to miss on the way to a show.