A line drawing of the Home of the Pottsville Republican, on Mahantongo Street, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The image appeared in the first edition of the newspaper, October 18, 1912, that was published using new, modern printing presses.
The building of the Pottsville Republican, which is located on Mahantongo Street, just around the corner from Centre Street, the main thoroughfare, and opposite the Academy of Music, was erected some years ago and still continues to be one of the leading, most modern constructed buildings of Pottsville, being of the usually termed “fire proof material” of stone and iron frame, terra cotta ceilings, cement floorings and slag roof. Recently our business required more room and we absorbed the adjoining building, which is termed the “Annex.” By this means we have a frontage of four lots, with capacious basement under all of them.
The basement under the main office is the press room, and the annex basements are used for news boys’ quarters and storage.
The first floor is the business and editorial department while the second floor is given up to the bindery and stock room.
The third floor is the job department and the fourth floor is the newspaper room, where the type is set, made into forms and cast into the plates, which are taken down the elevator to the press room.
At the present rate of growth of our business, we will be compelled to go up higher in the air with our present building and at the same time, enlarge the Annex….
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From Newspapers.com.
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