southern publishing association building in nashville tennessee burns

pouring water on southern publishing association fire in nashville

black smoke pours out of southern publishing association building

southern publishing association building burns This is sad: SPA burns down

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flames from the adventist publishing house on 24th avenue, nashville tennessee

water boom used to put out spa fire on july 20, 2010 in nashville tn

nashville skyline with black smoke billowing from southern publishing association fire

fire on the southern publishing association building 2010-07-20

bird’s eye view of fire of southern publishing association builidng R.I.P.


Channel 5 TV News gave this report about the fire which occurred on July 20, 2010:

by Chris Cannon

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Investigators believe a 3-alarm structure fire Tuesday afternoon on 24th Avenue North near Clarksville Pike is suspicious. For nearly five hours, firefighters battled with intense flames and the extreme heat.

Crews responded to the blaze at the former Seventh Day Adventist publishing house around 1:20 p.m. Heavy black smoke could be seen from miles away.
PHOTOS: 3-Alarm Structure Fire

The fire went to three-alarms. Two alarms of the alarms because to the size of the fire.

“And the third alarm is so that our guys can rest and other guys can go in and fight the fire,” according to Nashville Fire captain Maggie Lawrence.

Officials said 120 firefighters responded to the scene.

Temperatures in Nashville were into the low 90s as crews fought the blaze. Heat coming off the burning structure added to the already hot conditions.

In the 1890s, son James Edson White piloted the riverboat Morning Star on the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. Through an onboard printing press he published a journal called Gospel Herald, which encouraged and evangelized blacks in the South.

Moving to Nashville, he set his press up in a former barn chicken house. In 1901 the Gospel Herald Publishing Company became the Southern Publishing Association.

So this looks to be the very end of the line for the Gospel Herald Magazine founded by Edson White, which became the Southern Publishing Association. My father worked there from 1962-1970 or thereabouts, and my brother worked there too. Many truth-filled books were printed there, and i thank God for raising up this light in this part of the world.

Fortunately, last year when in America, i was able to take 6 pictures of the old Southern Publishing Association building. These pics can be seen on my blog here.

Credits to WKRN, WTVF, and WSMV for the news reports and pictures of the blaze.

7 thoughts on “southern publishing association building in nashville tennessee burns”

  1. Maybe it was just chance that happens in life. Closing down SPA and merging with Review and Herald tho looks to me to be contrary to God’s will.

    BTW, this post had more views than any other on this whole blog last year – over 3,000.

  2. I was going thru my late husband’s things and found a book published by Southern Publishing association. The name is Our Day In The Light of Prophecy. By W.A. Spicer. Would like to know more about book. My husband’s family used it somewhat for a family bible. They lived in Harlan Kentucky

  3. I used to have my piano recitals in the upstairs chapel in Southern Publishing beginning 1956/1957. Wonderful memories I’ll cherish ’till the day I die.

    David Sullins

  4. Dr. Dave Verret

    I found a book at a garage sale, The Prophecies of Daniel and the Revelation (Uriah Smith, 1946). In good condition for its age, nicely illustrated, too. A treasure from the past.
    Thanks for posting this info about the Southern Publishing Association.

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