This 1953 photograph shows an architect's sketch for Las Palmas Junior High School in North Sacramento, located at Las Palmas Avenue and Sixth Street. The 1,018,750 dollar school was occupied by its 760 students in February 1953 and was designed to...
This circa 1910 rendering shows Sacramento High School, located on the south side of K Street, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. The school, costing 254,500 dollars, was built in 1908 by Sacramento-based architect R.A. Herold who would...
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 November 4, 1937, photograph captures The Pacific Gas and Electric Building and other businesses on the south side of K Street, where it meets Eleventh Street. The PG and E building is flanked to the left by the Zinke’s Shoe Renewing...
Pictured in 1952 is the recently completed McKesson and Robbins warehouse at the corner of Richards Boulevard and Seventh Street. Opened in the fall of 1950 and costing nearly $1,000,000, the facility was designed by the accomplished Sacramento...
Pictured in circa 1955 is the façade of the News Publishing Company at 1213 H Street. The Bauhaus-style building was constructed in 1937 at a cost of 25,000 dollars for the brochure, catalog, mailer and newspaper firm, which was in existence...
Resting on the northeast corner of Alhambra Boulevard and Casita Way on September 26, 1936, is the brick-clad Channel Pie Shop. The design brainchild of Sacramento architect Harry Devine, the 75 by 112 foot bakery was built in 1934 for 13,000...
Pictured in 1959 at its 2700 Marconi Avenue address is a Cardinal grocery store. Several period automobiles are parked in the foreground. The two-story market was part of the retro-styled Town and Country Village shopping center, built in 1949 by...
The Twentieth-Century Market, located at the corner of Sixteenth and L Streets and surrounded by elm trees, is the subject of this June 25, 1937, photograph. The business opened in September of 1935 as one of the Sacramento’s twelve Cardinal...
The First Christian Church sits at 2701 N Street in this circa 1924 photograph. The Romanesque structure was built in 1911 for a cost of 30,000 dollars. The previous church – located at Sixteenth and L Streets – was burned down during the...
Shown on May 28, 1942, is the Oak Park Methodist Episcopal Church, at the corner of Thirty-Sixth Street and Sacramento Boulevard. Under the direction of Oakland-based architect Wilson J. Wythe, the exterior of the structure was made of hollow...
The façade of the English Gothic-style First Baptist Church at 2324 L Street is captured in this January 16, 1929, photograph. The real estate for the structure was purchased in the spring of 1924 while the church itself was dedicated in the...
Taken from the north side of J Street, this February 29, 1932, photograph shows the façade of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 3860 J Street. Prominent in the photograph are a rose window, Romanesque-style entrance, and Lombardy-style...
This circa 1930 photograph shows the 50-room Ryde Hotel in Ryde, California. Built in 1927, at the zenith of the Prohibition era, the Art Deco-style structure hosted an illegal basement saloon or "Speakeasy," where liquor and jazz flowed amply. ...
Pictured on April 11, 1928, and located directly across from the Esquire Theater, is the Del Rio Hotel on 1212 K Street. Visible is the façade of the structure with various cars parked before it. By late 1941, however, it was converted into a...
This circa 1928 photograph reveals Mercy Hospital at 4001 J Street, as viewed from the southeast. Yet another monumental design by Sacramento architect Rudolph Herold, Mercy was considered a model of modernity. X-ray facilities, sound absorbing...
Taken on March 28, 1932, this photograph shows the Mausoleum of the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery at 6700 Twenty-First Avenue. The 80,000 dollar structure was built in 1929/30 in the shape of a cross and represented a culmination of the efforts of...
Taken in 1970, this photograph shows an unnamed sculpture and fountain done by Norman Grag. Located at the main branch of the Wells Fargo Bank at 500 Capitol Mall, the fountain was an example of the city's requirement that, in any building...
Pictured in 1953 is the Senator Theater at 912 K Street. The main attraction is How to Marry a Millionaire, starring Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall. Set within what had been Turner Hall, the theater was designed by architect...
Shown here in circa 1959 is the rear section of the single-screen Village Theater at 2925 Fulton Avenue. California architect Gastono “Gale” Santocono designed the Village, one of fifteen movie theaters that he worked on in California,...
