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--- en:operating_principles:dtm:publishing_church_growth_model:location_historical [2026/08/17 10:06] – jpauldietrich
+++ en:operating_principles:dtm:publishing_church_growth_model:location_historical [2026/09/21 23:46] (current) – jpauldietrich
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-====== A Historical Evaluation of Publishing House Locations ======
+====== A Historical Review of Publishing House Moves ======
-===== Battle Creek -> Washington DC =====
+===== Battle Creek -> Takoma Park near Washington DC =====
 Initially the move of the printing press from Rochester, NY to Battle Creek was seen as God's providence.(((White, Ellen Gould. To Brother J. N. Andrews And Sister H. N. Smith, 1860, p. 10, para. 1))
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 > May the Lord help us to move understandingly and prayerfully. I am sure that He is willing that we should know, and that right early, where we should locate our publishing house. I am satisfied that our  only safe course is to be ready to move just when the cloud moves. Let us pray that He will direct us. **He has signified, by His providence**, that He would have us leave Battle Creek.... (LS 390.5).
-Later, in 1904, the Review and Herald publishing house in Battle Creek was destroyed by fire.
+In 1902, the Review and Herald publishing house in Battle Creek was destroyed by fire.
 > Today I received your letter in regard to the destruction of the Review and Herald Office. I had already received news of the disaster from Brother C. H. Jones, who wrote to me in regard to the telegram that you sent. I am afflicted with all who are afflicted. I know that this must be a very trying time for the brethren in charge of the work and for the employees of the office. I feel very sad as I consider the loss to the cause. But I expected to hear the news even before now. In my diary I had written out the description of a scene that had been presented to me, in which I saw an angel standing with a sword as of fire stretched over Battle Creek.
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 What was one of the biggest reasons God allowed this publishing house to be burned?
-> The Lord permitted fire to consume the principal buildings of the Review and Herald and the sanitarium, and thus removed the greatest objection urged against moving out of Battle Creek. It was His design that instead of rebuilding the one large sanitarium, our people should make plants in several places. These smaller sanitariums should have been established where land could be secured for agricultural purposes. It is God's plan that agriculture shall be connected with the work of our sanitariums and schools. Our youth need the education to be gained from this line of work. It is well, and more than well,—it is essential,—that efforts be made to carry out the Lord's plan in this respect.—Testimonies for the Church 8:227, 228 (1903). (CH 223.2).
+> The Lord permitted fire to consume the principal buildings of the Review and Herald and the sanitarium, and **thus removed the greatest objection urged against moving out of Battle Creek**. It was His design that instead of rebuilding the one large sanitarium, our people should make plants in several places. These smaller sanitariums should have been established where land could be secured for agricultural purposes. It is God's plan that agriculture shall be connected with the work of our sanitariums and schools. Our youth need the education to be gained from this line of work. It is well, and more than well,—it is essential,—that efforts be made to carry out the Lord's plan in this respect.—Testimonies for the Church 8:227, 228 (1903). (CH 223.2).
 > The Lord has opened this matter to me decidedly. The publishing work that has been carried on in Battle Creek should for the present be carried on near Washington. If after a time the Lord says, Move away from Washington, we are to move.—The Review and Herald, August 11, 1903. (LDE 105.1).
+The church purchased approximately **five acres** (2 hectares) of land in Takoma Park((https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH19050105-V82-01.pdf)) within the limits of Washington DC so that the imprint of Washington DC would appear on the literature, but far enough out (5 or 6 miles) to be in the country. A. G. Daniels wrote about this new purchase:
+> One of the finest places we have found was a place called Takoma Park. It is **on the main line** of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad running to Chicago and St. Louis. It is also reached by an **electric line**. It is **five or six miles** (eight or ten kilometers) **from the city**. It is ... a large **wooded tract of land**, lying on each side of the District line, part in the District and part in Maryland. It has an elevation of three hundred feet above the Potomac. It is a magnificent place. We could purchase all the land we required at a **very reasonable rate** (AGD to WCW, June 21, 1903).((https://text.egwwritings.org/read/665.4108?utm_source=chatgpt.com#665.4110))
+A larger plot of land (about **50 acres** or 20 hectacres) were purchased **nearby (within about a mile)** for the sanitarium and school.((https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH19050105-V82-01.pdf))
 ===== Oakland -> Mountain View (USA) =====
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 > Special light has been given me in regard to moving our publishing houses and sanitariums and schools out of the cities into places more favorable for their work, where those connected with them will not be exposed to all the temptations of city life. Especially should our schools be away from the cities. It is not for the spiritual good of the workers in our institutions for them to be located in the cities, where the temptations of the enemy abound on every hand.
-> The instruction given regarding the removal of the publishing work from Battle Creek to some rural place near Washington, D.C., was clear and distinct, and I earnestly hope that this work may be hastened.
+> The instruction given regarding the removal of the publishing work from Battle Creek to some **rural place** near Washington, D.C., was clear and distinct, and I earnestly hope that this work may be hastened.
-> Instruction has also been given that the Pacific Press should be moved from Oakland. [The move to Mountain View, California, thirty-eight miles south of San Francisco, was made in 1904 (see SDAEn 1059.)] As the years have passed by, the city has grown and it is now necessary to establish the printing plant in some more rural place, where land can be secured for the homes of the employees. Those who are connected with our offices of publication should not be obliged to live in the crowded cities. They should have opportunity to obtain homes where they will be able to live without requiring high wages.—Fundamentals of Christian Education, 492.((White, E. G. (1983). The Publishing Ministry. Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association, p. 187, para. 2-4))
+> Instruction has also been given that the Pacific Press should be moved from Oakland. [The move to Mountain View, California, **thirty-eight miles (61km) south of San Francisco**, was made in 1904 (see SDAEn 1059.)] As the years have passed by, the city has grown and it is now necessary to establish the printing plant in some more rural place, where land can be secured for the homes of the employees. Those who are connected with our offices of publication should not be obliged to live in the crowded cities. They should have opportunity to obtain homes where they will be able to live without requiring high wages.—Fundamentals of Christian Education, 492.((White, E. G. (1983). The Publishing Ministry. Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association, p. 187, para. 2-4))
+The Pacific Union Recorder for June 23, 1904 reported that the town of Mountain View had a population of only about **800 people**. The piece of land purchased was about **5 acres** (2 hectares). Although in a rural location, there was easy access to the railroad.((https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/PUR/PUR19040623-V03-25.pdf)) The 5 acres were apparently expanded to 15 acres by purchasing additional adjoining land.((https://semspub.epa.gov/work/09/100020561.pdf))
 ===== London -> Stanborough Park (UK) =====