The first local high school built north of the American River was a first in many ways, the result of a need for a school district to educate the far-flung school-age children in the area combined with the practical need for a civic center to bring...
This 1920 photograph shows the distinct twin-spired St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church, located at 1112 Twenty-sixth Street. Built for 100,000 dollars, the church's cornerstone was laid on October 10, 1908, and then dedicated on October...
Pictured in 1913 is the Saint Francis Catholic Church at 1112 Twenty-Sixth Street. The photograph was taken from the idyllic grounds of Sutter's Fort. It was donated by Dorothy Eiland.
Taken in circa 1926 is a photograph of the entrance to the Saint Francis Oaks real estate development. It occupied the area from Twenty-First to Twenty-Fourth Streets and 2150 Markham Way to Second Avenue. This photograph depicts a large...
This January 16, 1939, photograph reveals the elaboarately-decorated altar and apse of Saint Francis Roman Catholic Church at 1112 Twenty-Sixth Street.
Photographed in 1955, and resting at the southwest corner of Twenty-Sixth and K Streets, is the Saint Francis Roman Catholic Church. Built in 1908, the structure's address is 1112 Twenty-sixth Street.
Shown in circa 1910 are the northern grounds of Sutter's Fort. In the foreground is an ornamental pond, and a remnant of the old Burns Slough. In the distance is the twin-spired St. Francis of Assissi Catholic Church, at the corner of...
The printed description on the back of this card declares, "Sacramento, Metropolis of Superior California
Sunshine, Fruit and Flowers, Hotel St. Francis Tenth and I
Apartment Rooms." In 1913 when this postcard was mailed, the gentlemen matching the...
Sutter's Fort and Saint Francis Catholic Church are displayed prominently in this postcard. The long road to returning the historic site to its previous grandeur started in 1890, when the Sunset Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West...
Sutter's Fort, as viewed from above from the southeast, is the subject of this postcard. Visibile are the twin steeples of Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. L Street runs east to west in the lower, left-hand corner.
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
C.K. McClatchy Senior High School is located at 3066 Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento, California. Named after “Sacramento Bee” newspaper editor and owner Charles Kenny McClatchy, the school was built in 1937 by way of Public Works...
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
C.K. McClatchy Senior High School is located at 3066 Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento, California. Named after “Sacramento Bee” newspaper editor and owner Charles Kenny McClatchy, the school was built in 1937 by way of Public Works...
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
This August 4, 1940, photograph shows Chinn-Beretta Optometry at 1022 K Street. Prominent is a display window of glasses and indication of the business’ staff optometrists, Bolling Chinn and W.B. Leonard. At the time the photograph was taken,...
This March 28, 1938, photograph captures western side of the Hotel Sacramento. Visible on the structure's first floor are the Hotel Sacramento's Coffee Shop (1107 Tenth Street), and Dr. Locke's X-Ray Shoe Store (1115 Tenth Street). The five-story...
View of K Street looking west toward Second Street, showing the Fratt Building, which was built in 1870 by Francis W. Fratt, who had been prominent in Sacramento as a cattle dealer and real estate promoter since 1850. His home was here until 1908. ...
Captured in this March 28, 1931, photograph, and phalanxed by blooming wysteria, is the southern entrance to Sutter's Fort, located at Twenty-Seventh and L Streets. The bell towers in the distance are from the Saint Francis Catholic Church.
