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Bismarck Tribune Building

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1921, George H. Shanley. 224 N. 4th St.
  • (Photograph by Steve C. Martens)

After a history of destructive fires (1885, 1898, and 1920) at the Bismarck Tribune newspaper headquarters, editor George Douglas Mann hired a Great Falls, Montana, architect to design this fireproof building with a concrete frame and floors, structural clay tile walls, and Hebron pressed-brick exterior. The popular Prairie Style design emphasizes horizontal proportions and incorporates decorative brickwork with applied terra-cotta ornament with motifs of stylized lamps, flowers, leaves, and lotus buds. Brick header courses accent the pilasters that support rectangular spandrels between the first- and second-floor windows. A distinctive polychrome terra-cotta bas-relief panel above the main entrance reproduces a painting of monks practicing the printer’s craft on a hand press. The Bismarck Tribune Building has served as office space since the newspaper relocated its operations in 1981.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Steve C. Martens and Ronald H. L. M. Ramsay
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What's Nearby

Downtown Historic District
U.S. Post Office and Courthouse
Burleigh County Courthouse
Patterson Place (Patterson Hotel, McKenzie Hotel)
Northern Pacific (NP) Railway Depot

Citation

Steve C. Martens and Ronald H. L. M. Ramsay, "Bismarck Tribune Building", [Bismarck, North Dakota], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/ND-01-BL4.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of North Dakota

Buildings of North Dakota, Steve C. Martens and Ronald H. L. M. Ramsay. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 193-193.

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