WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)
WASHINGTON COUNTY NEWS BUILDING
St. George, Utah
LOCATION
23 East 100 North (now St. George Blvd.)St. George, Utah
Telephone 149 in the 1941 telephone book (WASHINGTON COUNTY NEWS)
Telephone 150 in the 1954 telephone book (Washington County News news desk)
Telephone ORchard 3-4141 in the 1958 telephone book (Washington County News news desk)
Telephone ORchard 3-4141 in the 1961 telephone book (WASHINGTON COUNTY NEWS news desk)
Telephone 673-4141 in the 1972 telephone book (WASHINGTON COUNTY NEWS)
Telephone (435)673-6116 in the 2019 telephone book (Classic Printing Inc)
HISTORY
This building, which housed the Washington County News, was originally a saloon in Silver Reef. It was built in1880 and used until ????.
After the mining town's demise, the building was moved to its present location in St. George and has been used
for publishing ever since. It housed the Washington County News from 1898 to 1986.
In 1986, the Mountford family, who published the Washington County News, sold the newpaper to John Rogers
but kept the printing business which became Classic Printing Inc. They continued printing the Washington
County News for Rogers until that paper ceased operations in 1988. Classic Printing has remained in the
building since then.
PHOTOS
Washington County News and old Post Office buildings
Washington County News building in 2009 (taken from WCHS-02542)