Scrapbook of architectural designs, plans and details mostly executed by Solon Spencer Beman, 1853-1914.

Beman, Solon Spencer, 1887-1952,

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Beman, S. S. (Solon Spencer), 1853-1914

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The Pioneer Press Building (now known as the Pioneer Building) was designed by architect Solon Beman of Chicago. It was erected in downtown St. Paul in 1888-1889 to house the offices and presses of the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper. Critic Montgomery Schuyler called the building an "uncompromising parallelopiped of brown brick [which] rears itself to the height of twelve stories" and was "eminent for the strictness with which the design conforms itself to the utilitarian conditions of the str...