The Heritage, National Register historic building in Oklahoma, US

The Heritage is a six-story Neoclassical building measuring 260 by 140 feet, completed in 1923 as the India Temple Shrine Building. Its north and east sides are limestone, its south and west sides red brick; the top three levels of the east facade have recessed windows, Ionic engaged columns and a projecting cornice. The western third holds the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum, the rest Class A offices.

Sixteen Oklahoma City Masonic lodges pooled their funds to build the India Temple Shrine Building, begun in October 1922 and completed in 1923 at a cost of $1.3 million, designed by Layton, Hicks and Forsyth. The Masons vacated it within a decade during the Great Depression; it stood empty until Joe D. Morris bought it at auction in December 1945 for $201,000 and converted it to offices. Damaged in the 1995 bombing, it was bought by the city and later redeveloped as The Heritage.

The building began as the India Temple Shrine Building, built by 16 Oklahoma City Masonic lodges that pooled their funds; the first lodge had been chartered in 1890. Its rooms were decorated in Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Byzantine styles, and the Shrine Auditorium held 2,062 seats and a pipe organ with 3,000 pipes. The museum entrance is at 620 N. Harvey Avenue.

The museum entrance is on the west elevation at 620 N. Harvey Avenue; the office portion is entered from the east side, up the original stone steps. A section of the second floor was left unrepaired after the 1995 bombing so visitors can see the blast damage. The sixth floor has a 750-square-foot rooftop terrace reached by an internal staircase from the fifth floor.

A section of the museum's second floor was deliberately left unrepaired after the 1995 bombing, so visitors can see the blast damage for themselves. Marble stored in the basement by the city after the bombing was later found and now forms the backdrop to framed art in the lobby.