Colorado's second oldest newspaper, the Central City Register-Call, published weekly since 1862, was issued until 1996 from this three-story granite building. When the newspaper ran into red ink, it sold the building to the Masons, who added the third-story lodge hall and leased space to the newspaper. Central City's pioneer photographer, Joseph Collier, whose work documents the rapid, early evolution of the county, had a studio here. In one of the few structures to survive the 1874 fire, heavy metal fire shutters guard the door at the top of the wooden steps of Register Alley.