SkercH oF THE CENTRAL PUBLISHING HOUSE. 105
SKETCH OF THE CENTRAL PUBLISHING
HOUSE.
THE publication of the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
was begun in 1850 at Paris, Me., by Eld. James White, for the:
purpose of disseminating the doctrines indicated by its title.
The friends of the cause being few, and generally poor, the ex-
tent of the publishing work in its earlier years was necessarily
quite limited In August, 1851, the office of publication was es-
tablished at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and seven months later it
was removed to Rochester, N. Y. Previous to this time, the
printing of the paper had been done at other offices, as it had no
printing outfit of its own. Upon its establishment at Rochester,
the friends of the cause raised seven or eight hundred dollars,
and a press and printing material were purchased. In the
autumn of 1855 it was decided to remove the office to Battle
Creek, Mich? "and a ¢om- .
mittee consisting of D. R.
‘Palmer, Henry Lyon, and
Cyrenius Smith was ap-
pointed to attend to such
removal. The first issue
of the paper from the of-
fice at Battle Creek was
dated Dec. 4, 1855. The
same year an office build-
ing was erected, being a
two-story wooden struct-
ure 22x30 ft. The work
had increased to such an OLD OFFICE BUILDING.
extent that the equipment of the office was entirely inadequate,
to meet the demands, and accordingly an Adams’ power press
was purchased in the summer of 1857, also a steam engine and
other fixtures, the whole costing $2,500. In May, 1861, the
Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association was duly incor-
porated at Battle Creek, and to this Association all the prop-
erty pertaining to the publishing work was made over. This
Association immediately erected a new office of publication, be-
ing a brick building, two stories high, in the form of’'a Greek
cross, the main portion being 26 x 66 ft., the transverse section
26 x 44 ft., as here represented.
The eight annual report of the Association, May 14, 1868,
showed the amount of property belonging to the Association,
free from all incumbrance, to be $35,996.59.
In 1871 a second building of the same size and form as above
illustrated, was erected to meet the wants of the increasing busi-
ness, © In 1873 a third building of the same kind was built for the