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The "Pledge of Allegiance Building" is the building at 142 Berkely Street in Boston, Massachusetts, named because the Pledge of Allegiance was written and published in the building. The building, originally with the address 201 Columbus Avenue, was the offices of The Youth's Companion, the magazine owned and edited by Daniel Ford that promoted the Pledge of Allegiance. Ford built the building for The Youth's Companion, moved the headquarters there in 1892 and remained until 1915 when the magzine moved to a new building in Boston near the current Boston Universiy. |
The "Pledge of Allegiance Building" is the building at 142 Berkely Street in Boston, Massachusetts, named because the [[Pledge of Allegiance]] was written and published in the building. The building, originally with the address 201 Columbus Avenue, was the offices of [[The Youth's Companion]], the magazine owned and edited by [[Daniel Ford]] that promoted the Pledge of Allegiance. Ford built the building for The Youth's Companion, moved the headquarters there in 1892 and remained until 1915 when the magzine moved to a new building in Boston near the current Boston Universiy. |
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The five story building was designed by architect Henry Hobson Richardson who also designed the nearby Trinity Church and Sever Hall at Harvard University. |
The five story building was designed by architect [[Henry Hobson Richardson]] who also designed the nearby [[Trinity Church]] and [[Sever Hall]] at Harvard University. |
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Revision as of 12:10, 13 November 2009
The "Pledge of Allegiance Building" is the building at 142 Berkely Street in Boston, Massachusetts, named because the Pledge of Allegiance was written and published in the building. The building, originally with the address 201 Columbus Avenue, was the offices of The Youth's Companion, the magazine owned and edited by Daniel Ford that promoted the Pledge of Allegiance. Ford built the building for The Youth's Companion, moved the headquarters there in 1892 and remained until 1915 when the magzine moved to a new building in Boston near the current Boston Universiy.
The five story building was designed by architect Henry Hobson Richardson who also designed the nearby Trinity Church and Sever Hall at Harvard University.
Ford's monumental, five-story building combined beauty and artistic qualities with good design and lay out for a publishing business, with natural light from windows and skylights. His style was the round-arched, squat-columned, masonry-exalting Romanesque.
This five-storied building Richardson designed for The Companion is of brown sandstone and matching brick, as solid and impressive as a bank. Great arched windows and heavily recessed and arched doors characterize the street facade. Passing beneath the great arch, one enters a great vestibule two stories high. Throughout the interior the woodwork was of oak with heavily carved oaken benches for waiting visitors.[1]
When used by The Youth's Companion, the first floor of the building held the business office, correspondence department, subscription and advertising departments where Mr. Ford's office was in the back. The third floor held the premium department, packing and mailing room and stitching machines. The fifth floor contained the editorial offices, art department and library that had an encyclopedic collection of clippings from over 200 magazines from around the world. The pressroom was in the basement along with the pressex, collators, steam tubular boilers for powerbinding equipment and two dynamos which generated electricity for lighting for the building and steam tubular boilers for powerbinding equipment.[2]