East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-10-26
JOURNAL WILL HAVE
FINE NEW BUILDING
ELEVEN STORY STRUCTURE
FOR c. s. JACKSON'S PAPER
To BE Erected ut Corner of seventh
and Iamhill Streets at Cost of
S35O, O,OOO-Will Provide Thoroughly
Up-to-Date Newspaper Home.

Pendleton people who have follow
ed with interest the fortunes of C. S.
Jackson and the Journal will be in
terested in the announcement just
made that the Journal is to erect a
splendid eleven story building at the
corner of Seventh and Yamhill streets
in Portland. The building is to cost
SS50,000 and when completed will
give the Journal one of the most mod
ern and best equipped newspaper
homes in the country.
The Journals new home is to be
eleven-story, steel frame, fireproof
structure, surmounted by a clock and
chime tower and will cost approxi-
mately $350,000 or more. The per-
spective on this page shows how the
building will appear when completed
That portion of the building to be
occupied by The Journal exclusively
is the basement, ground floor, mezza-
nine floor and second floor, covering
a ground area of 100 feet. Above
the third floor the building will be
60 feet square, and will constitute a
distinct, high class office building,
with elevator service direct to the
main lobby.
The presses, together with the
stereotpying department. mailing
room, storage room and mechanical
auxiliary will be located in the base
ment. The ground floor will be TAX
en- up by The Journals business Of
/ flee, comprising the advertising, cir
Culation, bookkeeping and managerial
/ departments.
! The mezzanine floor will contain
/ the editorial department of the pa
per. Here will be located the office
/ of the managing editor and those of
/ his assistants. on this floor also will
/ be the offices of the news editor, city
editor, a large news room for the re-
/ portorial force, separate department
for the telegraph service of the pa
per- library and filing room.
The engraving department, art
! rooms, composing and moulding room
will occupy the entire second floor
/ Office Rooms Provided.
Each of the floors from the third
/ to the ninth, inclusive, will contain
sixteen offices. all with outside light.
The tenth and eleventh floors will
contain eight offices each, and in the
tower will be located the clock.
chimes and elevator machinery.
An interesting feature of the office
portion of the structure is the fact
that each floor will be so arrange i
that it can be rented entire by a cor
poration, firm or individual, thereby
giving to one tenant the complete
control of all of one floor.
The big presses which will be To-
Gated in the basement, and of which
there are three, will be so placed that
they can be seen direct from the side
walk on Yamhill street.
Especial attention has been paid bN
the architects of the building, Reed
Bros, of Portland and San Francisco
t. the lighting and ventilating system
of the structure. THE floors occupied
by The Journal will have windows or
three sides, while every room in the
office portion of the structure viii
have an outside exposure.
Oregon Stone Used.
The ventilating system will be mod
|
ing being supplied with fresh air by
means of fans located in the base.
ment.
Native Oregon materials will entel
largely into the trimming of the bull.
ding. The stone used in the exterior
walls and trim of the first three floor.
will be Oregon stone, and the marbl,
wainscotting in the lobby and corri.
dors will also be quarried in thi.
state. The exterior walls of the up
per stories will be either terra cottf
or pressed brick, or combination O.
the two.
There will be a main lobby to ~.
building proper, and large public
Lobby in connection with the bushes.
office
The building is designed to be tn,
most up to date and complete hom,
occupied by an newspaper on the Pa
cific coast. 1t is located in the very
heart of the city and will contain be
sides The Journal quarters 1928 of
fices for outside tenancy.
AGED RETIRED RANCHER