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    THE SCANDINAVIAN MISSION HOUSE AT CHRISTIANIA

    This building is situated on the corner of Akersgaden and Thor Olsens Gade. It fronts the north, the main entrance being on Thor Olsens Gade, the new street, the construction of which required the tearing away of a part of the old building. In front, and nearly opposite, stands the large Catholic church, while immediately adjoining it to the south is the Lutheran mission house, and less than a block away, on the same street, is the large Lutheran church, called “The Trinity.”HSFM 74.2

    Our building is 46x69 feet in size, with two stories and basement. It is built of brick, with a foundation of grey stone, and presents a neat and elegant appearance. The ground on which it stands, slopes rapidly to the south, so that while the entrance to the first story is gained by two steps, the floor of the press room, which is in the south end of the basement, is but two feet below the level of the street. Thus a large part of the basement has abundance of light.HSFM 75.1

    If we enter the building at the main door on the north, and ascend the broad iron stairway to the second story, we find a large, commodious, well-lighted meeting-hall, 55 feet in length, 41 feet in breadth, and 22 feet from floor to ceiling, capable of seating four hundred persons. At the end of this hall is a gallery, 14 feet deep and 41 feet long. That portion of the room under the gallery not occupied by the main stairway, is now used as an editorial room; but it has wide sliding doors, so that in case of need it can be opened into the main auditorium, and thus add 12x19 feet to the meeting-room.HSFM 75.2

    Returning to the first floor we enter the office and sales room, a light, airy room 19x33 feet in size, with windows on two sides. From the office we pass to the composing room, 27x33 feet in size, which, with the office, occupies the west side of the building. Near the center of the east side of the building is another entrance, and near this entrance is the pneumatic elevator for the transportation of type-forms, printed sheets, etc., from the press room in the basement to the composing room and the bindery on the main floor. On the north of this entrance is a room 20 feet square, used for a bindery, and on the south side are a store room and a proof-reader’s room, each about 12x14 feet.HSFM 75.3

    In the south end of the basement is the press room. This room is high and light, and is occupied by a large English stop-cylinder press, a small German cylinder press, a Peerless job press, and a 36-inch-power paper cutter.HSFM 75.4

    The north end of the basement is occupied by the stereotype foundry on the west, and the engine and boiler room on the east. The stereotype room is fully equipped with the best stereotyper’s machinery. Power for running the machinery, and heat for the whole building, are furnished by a ten-horsepower engine, and a fifteen-horse-power boiler. From the north end of the engine and boiler room are partitioned off two small rooms; one is a coal room, and the other is a fire-proof vault for storing stereotype plates and matrices.HSFM 75.5

    The whole building, including the meeting-hall, is heated by steam, both direct and indirect radiation being employed; and ample provision has been made for ventilation. The building proper has cost $10,150. The entire cost of building, fixtures, and machinery, exceeds $18,000.HSFM 75.6

    The lot on which the property stood was quite large, and since the erection of the new building it has been divided, so that the corner lot, on which the new building stands, is called Akersgaden 74, while the remainder is called Thor Olsens Gade No. 1.HSFM 75.7

    That which remained of the old building has been remodeled, repaired, and painted, so that it now furnishes five suites of rooms, which are rented out to private families for about $350 a year. The income from this house and lot is sufficient to cover taxes, and to pay about five per cent interest on the appraised value of the property. If it should be decided to sell, the improvements made this year make the property in every way more desirable. If, however, the work shall continue to grow, as we trust it will, this house, situated as it is immediately adjoining the printing office, would be very convenient and desirable in case a mission school, office boarding house, or something similar were needed.HSFM 75.8

    At present the office publishes four monthly papers, two in the Danish-Norwegian, and two in the Swedish. One of these in each language is a health journal. The one in Danish, Sundhedsbladet, is the only paper of its kind in that language, and during the first part of 1886 it has been very successful. Considerable effort has been made to call attention to it, by sending out descriptive circulars with testimonials, and subscription blanks, with some of the most influential and widely circulated secular papers. Our office prints the circulars, and the publishers send them out as supplements to their papers, so that each of their subscribers receives a copy. As a result of these and other efforts, subscriptions are coming in every day. About $1200 has been received on this paper since the beginning of the year.HSFM 76.1

    We trust that the time is not far distant when both of our religious papers shall be issued semi-monthly. We see a great work before the office in Christiania. The Scandinavian people will buy good religious books if printed in a style to please, and at prices that they regard as reasonable. There is great necessity for a better assortment of books.HSFM 76.2

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