Gannett Co. Inc., parent company of the Wausau Daily Herald, has sold the newspaper’s longtime home at 800 Scott St., the newspaper reported Tuesday.
The Daily Herald offices had been located in the building since 1958. The newspaper will lease space in the building, which it reports was sold to Bauer’s Mega Storage, a Wausau-area company.
With the sale, Gannett no longer owns any of the buildings that for decades had housed its central Wisconsin newspapers. Between 2012 and 2017, Gannett sold its buildings in Wisconsin Rapids, Marshfield and Stevens Point, while moving the newspaper offices to new locations. The (Wisconsin Rapids) Daily Tribune, Marshfield News-Herald and Stevens Point Journal all continue to serve their communities as daily newspapers, as will the Daily Herald.
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The Wausau newspaper was established in 1907 as the Wausau Daily Record-Herald. Its roots can be traced back even further, to 1875, when a weekly known as the Torch of Liberty began publication. Following several mergers and name changes, the first Record-Herald was printed Dec. 2, 1907.
