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From: "Randi Richardson" <>
Subject: [INMONROE] Telephone Company
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 08:54:58 -0500


Bloomington (IN) Evening World, Jan 19, 1928, p. 1. NOTE: This lengthy news item was abbreviated below as noted by the ellipsis. The building noted in the article still stands and, if I am not mistaken, is still the phone company.

NEW TWO-STORY BUILDING TO HOUSE
PLANT WILL GO UP AT ONCE ON EAST
SEVENTH STREET
Indiana Bell Proves Faith in City's Future
Growth by Enormous Outlay for Expansion

This city is assured of the most modern dial telephone service and a new telephone building by the first of next year in plans announced by the Indiana Bell Telephone company through its Bloomington manager, F. S. Shoemaker today. A new central office building will be erected on East Seventh Street between Walnut and Washington and entirely new equipment will be installed. For several years the telephone company has been occupying the second floor of the building on the northeast corner of the square...

The site of the new building, known as the old Buskirk place, is a lot 66x132 feet and was purchased last year at a cost of $14,000. Plans for the building which were drawn up by W. J. Weesner, Indiana Bell architectural engineer, call for a two-story building, so constructed that an additional story can be built when needed. It is fire-proof and constructed of reinforced concrete with exterior trim of Bedford cut stone with a field of brick or ashlar stone.

The first floor area will be 51 feet by 82 feet deep. The second floor will be over the entire front and will extend 41 feet to the rear. The height will be about 35 feet from grade. There will be a basement under the entire structure. The building will be thoroughly equipped with a modern heating plant and other up-to-date conveniences.

The central office dial equipment will be similar to that now being installed in the larger cities of the United States. The central office equipment installation will consist of approximately 3,000 lines and 4,000 terminals, adequate it is thought, to take care of this city's requirements until about January 1, 1931...



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