Architect: Howell & Thomas Building Contractor: Clemmer-Noah Construction Co.

The Beacon Publishing Company began publication of Akron's first daily newspaper, the Akron Daily Beacon, on December 6, 1869. In 1930 Scripps Howard Newspaper had the a new building built for the Akron Times-Press. Then, in 1938, the company acquired its present building  and the newspaper from the Times-Press, the original owner of the structure. The site of the building at Exchange and High was formerly occupied by the City's Music Hall, razed in 1929 to allow the new construction.

The building is located on a main north-south artery of Akron and on the fringes of the central industrial district.

The building has a three tiered corner tower that had swaged lanterns over the entries.. Buttress piers contain windows above the basement. Torch motifs ornament the banded tower.

Adding to Akron's Modern Structures. Advertisement. Akron Topics Apr. 1930:Cover.

Splendid New Building of The Times-Press to be opened About June 15

Occupying the site of Akron's one-time Music Hall, at Exchange and High streets, the new building of the Akron Times-Press adds conspicuously to the increasing important Main-Exchange district. The Times-Press management is everywhere commended that without exception Akron builders and Akron supply houses are performing the labor and furnishing the material for the new home of this Akron newspaper. New equipment of machinery throughout will make this as complete a newspaper plant as could be devised.

  

2006© Jeri Holland

2006© Michael Cohill

 

Top Photo: Akron Times Press. photograph. 1930. Akron-Summit County Library: Special Collections, Akron, OH. Akron Topics July. 1930: 6.