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 Pleasant Hill Times - Pleasant Hill, Mo. Posted by:  iconions
N 38° 47.087 W 094° 16.468
15S E 389305 N 4293665
This one-story red brick building is located at 126 S. First Street in Pleasant Hill, Mo. and is the headquarters of the Pleasant Hill Times newspaper.
Waymark Code: WMP03D
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 06/01/2015
Views: 3
The publishers and staff of the Pleasant Hill Times have brought readers their very best each week for over 100 years now.
Founded in 1901, nothing covers Pleasant Hill and the surrounding northeastern Cass County community than the Pleasant Hill Times and the the Penny-$aver.
The Times is a paid circulation weekly newspaper that reaches an incredible 75 percent or more share of the Pleasant Hill market.
The weekly newspaper's sister publication—the Penny$aver—is a free circulation, total market coverage publication that is delivered to nonsubscribers in Pleasant Hill and the adjoining Holden-Kingsville trade area.
Together, the Times and Penny$aver offer advertisers the option of reaching almost every every address in the community.
The Times gives an advertiser the best readership possible in the Pleasant Hill community. That’s because no other news media covers Pleasant Hill like the Times.
In it, Pleasant Hill readers find in depth coverage of city and county government, school news, sports, features and columns and the milestones of its readers such as births, deaths, engagements and weddings.
The Times is a member of the Missouri Press Association, National Newspaper Association and an associate member of the Associated Press.
Over the years, the Pleasant Hill Times has been consistently recognized as one of the best weekly newspapers in Missouri.
In fact, the Times won first place for general excellence and was judged Missouri's best small town newspaper in the Missouri Press Association's 2001 Better Newspaper Contest.
- Pleasant Hill Times website
Date of Construction: c.1880
This brick one-part commercial block has a rectangular footprint. The front elevation is three bays wide. Storefront fenestration defines the bays. Flanking the center bay entrance are two plate glass windows that rest on three-foot-high brick bulkheads. The wood frame storefront is a modern reconstruction of the original configuration. A plywood sign covers the transom window. Additional character-defining features include brick pilasters that rise above the parapet at each end of the upper facade wall; the soldier brick entrance surround; and the stone parapet coping, pilaster caps, entrance threshold, and corner blocks. Historically, the narrow space between this building and 128 South First Street was known as "Wall Street." Local sources indicate that this space was left between the buildings to allow management and employees of the J. C. Jones Lumberyard to walk directly from the lumberyard on Second Street to the commercial businesses on First Street.
The alterations to the transom are easily reversible. This building retains sufficient architectural integrity to convey its historic associations and is a contributing element to the historic district.
- National Register Application
Text of historic marker on right side of building:
HISTORIC BUILDING circa 1900
126 FIRST ST.
From 1900 until 1915 this building
was the home of various jewelry
businesses. Then the Bargain Spot
and in 1917 a shoe shop. From 1919-1921
it was a millinery store. Early in 1921 it
was a feed store. Later that year
Pleasant Hill Times publisher Roy T.
Cloud moved into the remodeled
building and continued printing the
newspaper until 1961. After several
owners, Jan & Kirk Powell purchased
the business in 1989. It has been a
newspaper office continually since
1921.
DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 1992
Area Served: Pleasant Hill, Mo.
What is (later, was) its physical address?:
126 S First Street
Pleasant Hill, Mo. USA
64080
Does it now just provide an internet read?: Both newsprint and internet
Internet address: [Web Link]
Did you ever buy or subscribe to this paper?: No.
Please provide a link referring to the newspaper's demise.: Not listed
If applicable, when was this publication's last edition?: Not listed
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