This January 1, 1900, photograph looks northerly from the dome of the California State Capitol building toward the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at Eleventh and K Streets. The steeple on the immediate right of the photograph is that of the...
This 1928 photograph provides a view of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament and the Hotel Senator from the California State Capitol building’s dome. Nestled between the hotel and church is the Weinstock, Lubin and Company department store. A...
Taken on November 14, 1939, this photograph shows the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at 1017 Eleventh Street. Several period cards are parked on Eleventh Street. Designed after Paris’s Church of the Holy Trinity and the passion of Bishop...
Pictured in 1927 is the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at 1107 Eleventh Street. Several period cards are parked on Eleventh Street. The city’s moneyed Catholics were giddy to make their mark on the structure: Ellen Dwyer, Daniel McCarthy,...
This westerly view, from the intersection of Twelfth and K Streets, was taken in 1939. On the right are the towering spires of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, built in 1889 for 250,000 dollars. Its design was directed by the Sacramento...
This 1939 photograph shows the marble altar of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, located at Eleventh and K Streets. It was dedicated in October 1939 during a two-hour consecration, as part of the Cathedral’s Golden Jubilee. Rites also...
This circa 1930 postcard shows the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, located at Eleventh and K streets, and, to the north, its presbytery, which was built in 1924 under the leadership of Archbishop Patrick Keane. Just one year prior, the...
Shown in circa 1910 is the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament as it sits at Eleventh and K streets. The Italian Baroque-style cathedral was, in the eyes of its primary proponent, Bishop Patrick Manogue, meant to provide a spiritual complement to...
This circa 1910 postcard shows the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacramento, at Eleventh and K Streets, as viewed from the southwest. Completed in 1889, the cathedral's design of a central bell tower and two flanking spires was inspired by the Church...
Capitol Park is the focus of this aerial photograph of the downtown Sacramento in 1932. The original east entrance of the California State Capitol building is visible, as are, from left to right in the middle of the photo, the California Western...
This 1939 view from the Senator Hotel at 1121 L Street shows the spires and apse of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at 1017 Eleventh Street. Several men in the foreground are painting the word "Sacramento" on the roof of the Weinstock,...
A bustling scene on K Street was captured in this 1913 photograph. A horse and wagon in the photograph’s foreground contrasts a slowly shifting paradigm toward the use of automobiles. Sidewalks are lined with pedestrians. In the background and...
This circa 1940 postcard shows the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at Eleventh and K streets. The vantage point provides a rare view of a vehicularized Eleventh Street, between K and I streets. By 1969, K Street had been transformed into the...
Shown on January 26, 1910, are the ornate altar and apse of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacramento, located at 1017 Eleventh Street. Opened in 1889, the structure took three years to build. Its June 30, 1889 dediction included eighth separate...
This 1907 postcard shows the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, located at the intersection of the K and Eleventh streets. The message reads as follows: "My dear cousin, just thought I'd write you a line to let you know I'm well - hoping you...
K Street, between 7th and 14th streets was converted into a pedestrian mall. “This section included two of the city’s finest old buildings, Weinstock’s Department Store and the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament.” In December of 1969, The...
This March 7, 1941, photograph shows the Sears, Roebuck and Company department store, located at 1123 K Street. In the background are the tops of the Elks Temple, and the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. The store opened in April of 1928 at...
The California Fruit Building provides the vantage point for this circa 1940 photograph. Beyond the rear of the Travelers Hotel, the distance reveals, from left to right, the Elks Building, the California Western State Life Insurance Building, and...
This June 2, 1937, photograph captures construction at the future site of the American Trust Company, at Tenth Street, between J and K Streets. Bracketing the site, is, to the left, the Elks Building, while the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament...
Pictured in 1930 is a section of downtown Sacramento, including, most prominently, the twin Capitol Extension buildings, State Capitol building, and Capitol Park. To the upper-left section of the photograph is the Cathedral of the Blessed...
