Article July 4, 1908 Issue

NEW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING HOUSE NEARING COMPLETION

Boston Globe

One of the finest office buildings in Boston, now approaching completion, is that which is to house the Christian Science publications. The building, located at Falmouth and St. Paul Streets, facing sixty-seven feet on Falmouth and one hundred and twenty-eight feet on St. Paul Street, and with the main entrance at the corner, is of Indiana limestone, or Bedford stone as it is known in the trade, and harmonizes perfectly with the edifice of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, The Mother Church across the way, which is constructed of the same material. The new building, which contains every perfection in the art of the building trades, from fireproofing and sanitation to the latest devices for expeditiously and conveniently carrying on a great publishing enterprise, will be ready for occupancy next month, when the editorial, mailing, and other departments of the Christian Science publications, including the periodicals and magazines and Mrs. Eddy's book and pamphlet output, now housed at 250 Huntington Avenue, will be moved in.

The handsome new building, three stories with a basement, has risen in part on what was formerly the site of the heating plant of The Mother Church, this plant consisting of four steam boilers, whose product was piped into the church through a subway under St. Paul Street. Clever architects devised plans by which the new building was constructed over the old boiler house, and even around the tall brick chimney of the plant, and the boiler room itself was so enlarged that two additional boilers, which it was found would be needed, could be put in, as well as pumps, electrical motors, etc. In the basement of the new building are the packing and shipping rooms, and there is a set-in on the western side of the building where trucks can be driven in either with supplies or to take away the output to the postoffice, steamship wharves, or railroads, and without being interfered with by stormy weather. Electrically operated freight and passenger elevators will aid in expediting the transaction of business on every floor from the basement to the roof.

St. Paul Street is narrow and Falmouth is not wide, so the directors of the building enterprise had the new building set back twenty feet from the sidewalk line on each street, for the purpose of maintaining a grass plot between the building and the streets, giving the streets the appearance of having been greatly widened, and at the same time furnishing a green frame for the setting of the building. The main entrance is impressive, with two artistic lamps at the street level, and with heavy columns of Bedford stone as one enters the first floor by a short flight of stone steps. From a commodious hallway one turns to the right into a large room, which will be the general business office for Mrs. Eddy's books, and smaller, but still large, well-lighted, and conveniently arranged rooms extend the whole length of the building on the St. Paul Street side, and are to be used by bookkeepers, stenographers, clerks, and others engaged in the business.

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