Flint Journal Building Flint, Michigan
National Register of Historic Places Data
Flint Journal Building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 13000903
- Date Listed
- December 11, 2013
- Name
- Flint Journal Building
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 200 E. 1st. St.
- City/Town
- Flint
- County
- Genesee
- State
- Michigan
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNICATIONS
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Flint Journal Building is significant under national register criterion A for housing Flint's longest-running daily newspaper since the building 's construction in 1924. The Journal has reported events in Flint and the surrounding area from the paper's founding in 1876 until the present day. Since 1911 the newspaper has been part of the Booth Newspapers of Michigan. The editors of the paper were generally important in Flint's business community, including Michael A. Gorman, an important advocate for Flint's Cultural Center. The building is significant under criterion C as an intact example of the modernized Neo-Classical architecture of noted Detroit architect Albert Kahn . The 1952 addition and 1954 remodeling were designed by noted Detroit architect William E. Kapp. The period of significance begins in 1924 when the original portion of the building was constructed and ends in 1954, after the construction of the first addition and remodeling of the original building.
