Originally a greenhouse, the two-story addition that houses the Liturgical Press offices and storeroom was begun in 1962, and completed by the summer of 1963 by architectural firm Traynor and Hermanson. The Liturgical Press owes it's founding to Fr. Virgil Michel, who directed the printing of 5,000 liturgical booklets in April of 1926. Fr. Virgil recognized that the Liturgical Movement in the United States would not become a part of parish life if it remained merely a theoretical idea. There were no publishing houses at that time which printed liturgical titles, and thus it seemed reasonable to establish one at Saint John's.
