Several in the comment trail and back-channel have
enquired about the rooms inside the Bible House and asked if photographs exist.
With very grateful thanks to Bernhard (who has done
all the work on this), below is a picture of the building along with seventeen extra
photographs taken at the site prior to the move to Brooklyn in 1909. Ideally, you
will need to transfer the graphic into a program like Microsoft Office Picture
Manager, and then you can increase it to a readable size. You can also then select
and separate the individual photographs if you wish.
Some additional comments about the second floor of
the building will follow this.
The previous description of Bible House mentioned
that the second floor was rented out for commercial purposes. This information
came from Dr Leslie Jones (who produced the convention reports 1904-1916). His
memories of visiting Bible House and the layout were written in 1929. However,
it seems that only part of the floor was rented out because Watch Tower offices
like the Colporteur Department were on this floor. Below is a picture of part
of the second floor from both outside and inside the building to establish
this.
However, a check of trade directories of the day
show that various businesses, including insurance and music teaching, as well
as some probably connected to CTR at some point, were also carried on from the
Arch Street address. So it would seem the second floor was used by both the
Watch Tower Society and other interests. With over 2500 square feet per floor it
would be large enough to accommodate both.
4 comments:
Just incredible. Thanks for pursuing and posting these views I would have thought lost to history.
Excellent. Good work!
Wow! This post is pure gold. I've wanted to see this "map" of the Bible house for ages. Thanks so much for sharing it!
Very nice job, thank you.
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