Statement of Significance (as of designation - March 29, 2007):
Beth Sholom Synagogue is nationally significant as one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most important commissions during his career. Constructed between 1954 and 1959, the building is Wright’s only synagogue, among a relatively small number of religious commissions, stemming from the fruitful collaboration between the famous architect and the congregation’s rabbi, Mortimer J. Cohen. Beth Sholom Synagogue is one of a group of sixteen Wright buildings singled out in 1959 by the American Institute of Architects and the National Trust for Historic Preservation as his most important "to the nation...[and] which ought to be preserved in their original form."

the landmark was designated March 29, 2007