[2] Founded on March 30, 1889, by Frank Hilton Greer and initially located in Winfield, Kansas, the State Capital newspaper moved to Guthrie less than one month later, with the Land Rush of 1889, and changed from being a weekly to a daily.

As the newspaper's circulation grew, additional space was rented, and in 1897 the paper purchased the three-story building (which had four floors, counting the basement).

The building that the State Capital had used since 1890 burned to the ground in 1902 and was replaced by this four-story structure, on the same site.

Having been the first newspaper published in the Oklahoma Territory, the State Capital grew into the largest printing house west of the Mississippi River.

[2] In 1975, the building was acquired by the Oklahoma Historical Society, who had plans to outfit it as a publishing museum.