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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 13, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 50.

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The General Conference Administration Building

By Arthur G. Daniells

THIS week's REVIEW, page 8, gives a picture of the General Conference administration building at Washington. The building is located in the northern part of the District of Columbia, about fifty feet from the Maryland line. It stands in the center of a block one hundred and fifty feet square.
The building was planned and erected by the officers of the General Conference for the purpose of carrying on the administrative affairs of our denomination at its headquarters. It is forty-four by fifty-eight feet, with a full basement and three stories. The Treasury Department occupies the rooms on the left of the main hall on the first floor. The Home and Foreign Missions Department and the stenographers' room are located on the right side of the hall on the same floor. The offices of the president, vice-president, and Sabbath-school Department are located on the right side of the hall on the second floor. On the left of the hall on the second floor are the office of the statistical secretary, the library, the vault, and the stenographers' room. The offices of the Religious Liberty, Educational, Medical, and Publishing Departments are located on the third floor. On this floor is also the assembly room, in which the General Conference Committee holds its councils, and in which meetings for prayer and devotion are held each day by all who work in the building.
The building contains two good, strong vaults, in which are deposited the valuable documents, records, and files kept at our headquarters. The building is planned for good light, good ventilation, and the rapid and efficient dispatch of the great volume of work that comes to our headquarters from all parts of the world.
This building, which is plain but substantial, cost approximately thirteen thousand six hundred dollars. It was paid for by contributions from nearly all the countries of the world in which our work is being carried forward. Those who occupy it are profoundly grateful to our dear people for providing such a good, creditable building for the headquarters of this great cause.
A. G. DANIELLS.