Old Journal Building
S.H.S. Collection
- STANSTEAD J - STEVENS. F3T2. Stanstead Journal, file 2 of 2. Brochure rédigée par Penny Farfan, « The Old Journal Building », Rock Island, Heritage Technologies, 1986, 16 p.
- Document sur l’histoire du Stanstead Journal, de ses dirigeants et des bâtisses qui l’ont abrité. On insiste surtout sur le Old Journal Building de la Church Street.
- Charles Pierce bought some more land in 1861. This plot was situated on the east bank of the river, opposite his business, and across the way from his parents' home, on what is now called Church Street. In 1862-63, he built a large house for himself. This house - the Charles Pierce Place - is today known as th Old Journal Building. Of an architectural design known as "American Four Square", it is almost square in shape, built upon a framework of heavy wooden beams and posts, and topped by a roof with a flat center and four sloping sides. It is representative of a style of house that was popular at the time of its construction among the fairly well-to-do of this area and of New England in particular. [...] Shortly before her death on July 23, 1910, Susan E. Blodgett [jeune soeur de Charles et, à cette époque, propriétaire de la maison] sold the family home her brother Charles had built to John Calvin Holland, publisher of The Stanstead Journal. [...] At that time and for te first four years of his possession of it, the place was used as a tenement. Then, in Novembre of 1914, The Journal announced its move to Church Street. [...] Business was conducted on the ground floor of the new building. The upstairs was converted into two appartments, in which apparently resided John Holland and his sister-in-law. [...]. When John Sancton bought The Stanstead Journal from John Holland in 1948, he bought the business but not the Old Journal Building in which it had its offices. The Blisses, in their turn, bought only the newspaper from Sancton [Lloyd Bliss and his wife Anne, 1951]. [...] The Blisses did not own the building out of which they operated and so, understandably, invested only enough money and energy to keep it from falling apart. [...] In 1970, however, the Blisses were informed by the John Holland estate that they must either buy th Old Journal Building or vacate it. They decided to buy it. With the following year came the end of an era. The massive, 100-year-old printing press, [...], was shut off permanently and the switch to offset was made. Since that time, the Stanstead Journal has been printed on the presses of The Newport [Vermont] Daily Express. Valerie Cerini and Howard Smith became The Journal's fifth owner in 1980. [...] They came to Rock Island with great plans for both the newspaper and the Old Journal Building [...]. In 1983, however, disaster struck. [Big Fire] [...] Thus, in November of 1983 as it neared its 140th anniversary, The Journal moved back to Main Street and into the old Customs Office. The place on Church Street became known as the Old Journal Building and it has stood empty ever since".
- Site of Old Journal Building, The Stanstead Journal's Home from 1914 to 1983 (Voir carte, lettre F) (Voir carte, lettre A).
Documents visuels
Photo du Old Journal Building dans Penny Farfan, « The Old Journal Building », 1986. 
Localisation du Old Journal Building dans Penny Farfan, « The Old Journal Building », 1986.
