One of the characters atop the Masonic Temple (formerly the site of the Commercial Exchange) was Solomon. Solomon is the highest figure which looks like a pope. The one on the corner is Jacques DeMolay, the twenty-third and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar.

Designed by architect James Freret, this temple was replaced in 1926 with the present building designed by Sam Stone, now the third Masonic Temple on the site.

Would have to get my hands on that motorcycle in the window.

Kracke & Flanders was at 715-717 Perdido Street and the 1908 Motor Cyclopaidia shows that H.A. Testard's was on the corner of Perdido and St. Charles.

I couldn't help but wonder who the two slightly out of focus fellows
are perched upon the pinnacles. Given the order of things I'd guess
a Knights Templar and Saint John of Jerusalem. I'm sure someone knows
for sure.

I'm a Mason. I owned an old Temple in Mississippi once. The fraternity draws a great deal of symbolism from architecture. Old Temples look fabulous with their large windows, but I always love that the windows are "blacked-out" on the rooms were our rituals are performed. You can see several here on this lodge. Look at floor four and five.

Mark Gooch
photographer in Birmingham, AL

Well, I guess they could mean "bldg" but I'm sure I'm right.