The Wiesbaden press building was designed by the Wiesbaden architects Lang, Wolf and Hertel in a mixture of neo-baroque and art nouveau style and opened on October 24, 1909 as the Tagblatt building at Langgasse 21.

Characteristic of the striking late historicist building is its sandstone façade with its prominent central risalit and the bronze figure at the top of the gable, the allegory of "Knowledge" in the form of an athletic young man with a raised book, sculpted by Wiesbaden sculptor Philipp Modrow. Viewed from the axis of the street at Römertor, the house enjoys a somewhat privileged position in the otherwise narrow course of Langgasse. The mosaic portraits of Johannes Gutenberg and Albrecht Dürer can be seen at the side of the entrance hall. The building was built by the publisher Ludwig (Louis) Schellenberg, the third generation of the Wiesbaden publishing family. His grandfather Ernst Ludwig Theodor Schellenberg acquired the commercial building in Langgasse in 1809 and converted it into a print shop. In the second half of the 19th century, his grandson Ludwig bought up a whole series of smaller houses in order to be able to build the Pressehaus, which extends to Wagemannstraße at the rear.

Until 1943, the building housed the publishing house, editorial office and print shop of the Wiesbadener Tagblatt, founded in 1852, which was merged with the "Nassauer Volksblatt" to form the "Wiesbadener Zeitung" in that year. After the end of the war, the Schellenberg family's press house was confiscated but not expropriated. In 1945, the Wiesbadener Kurier moved in, appearing for the first time on October 2, 1945. From then on, it was the Kurier building for more than half a century. Initially, it also housed the American censorship office, which later moved to the Landeshaus on Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring. The Tagblatt was not allowed to appear again until 1949, but never caught up with the Kurier's circulation lead. It was not until 1999 that the local editorial office of the Wiesbadener Tagblatt moved back into the Pressehaus.