On February 9, 1878, the Herald was issued for the first time from the new building erected by its proprietors at No. 255 Washington Street.  This structure has a lofty and ornate front of gray granite with trimmings of red granite; it covers an irregular shaped lot, something in the form of the letter L. From Washington Street, where it has a width of thirty-one feet nine inches, it extends back one hundred and seventy-nine feet, and from the rear a wing runs northward to Williams Court forty feet.  This wing was originally twenty-five feet wide on the court; but in 1882 an adjoining lot, formerly occupied by the old Herald Building, was purchased and built upon, increasing the width of the wing and its frontage on the court to eighty-five feet.  The structure forms one of the finest and most convenient newspaper-offices in the country.  In the basement are the pressroom, where at the present time six Bullock perfecting-presses (two with folders attached) are run by two 45-horse-power engines; the stereotype-room, where the latest improvements in machinery have enabled the casting, finishing, and placing on the press of two plates in less than eight minutes after the receipt of a “form”; the two dynamos and the engine running them, which supply the electricity for the incandescent lights with which every room in the building is illuminated; and the storage-room for paper and other supplies.  On the first floor are the business-office, a very handsome and spacious apartment facing Washington Street, and finished in mahogany, rare marbles, and brasswork; the delivery and mailing rooms, whence the editions are sent out for distribution at the Williams-court door.  On the second floor are the reception-room, the library, and the apartments of the editor-in-chief, managing editor, and department editors.  On the third floor are the general manager’s office and the rooms of the news and city editors and the reporters.  The entire fourth floor is used as a composing-room, where stand “frames” for ninety-six compositors; the foreman and his assistants have each a private office, and a private room is assigned to the proofreaders.  All the editors’ and reporters’ rooms are spacious, well lighted, and admirably ventilated; they are finished in native woods, varnished, and are handsomely furnished.  Electric call-bells, speaking-tubes, and pneumatic-tubes furnish means of communication with all the departments, and no expense has been spared in supplying every convenience for facilitating work and the comfort of the employees.

With increased facilities came continued prosperity.  The business depression in 1877 affected the circulation of the Herald, as it did that of every newspaper in the country, and the circulation that year was not so large as during the year previous; still, the daily average was one hundred and three thousand copies.