Established in 1849, the city was formed along the waterfront and extended up J Street toward Sutter’s Fort. The Old Sacramento District is a national historic landmark due to its rich place in California’s history. A quarter of a million...
The Old Sacramento District is a national historic landmark due to its rich place in California history. A quarter of a million immigrants came to the Sacramento area, withstanding the ravages of fire, flood and disease to build their lives. ...
Pictured in circa 1960 are the Karl’s Shoes are 620 K Street and Breuner’s Furniture at 600 through 618 K Street. Karl’s – a chain store – had been a K Street fixture since the late-1920s while Bruener’s had been a Sacramento...
This circa 1980 photograph shows the riverboat Delta Queen on the Mississippi River. A sign on the vessel’s stern reads, “Delta Queen, Port of Cincinnati, Ohio.” Passenger mill about on different levels of the boat as the paddlewheel rips...
This 1996 postcard offers an aerial view of the Governor's Mansion and coachhouse, as taken from the southeast. As the home to California Governors from 1903 to 1967, the mansion and its grounds were named to the National Register of Historic...
This circa 1976 postcard shows Second Street, between I and J streets, in Old Sacramento. The rehabilitation of the historic area came with the January 1961 approval of the California State Parks Commission to create a State Historic Park in the...
This circa 1999 postcard shows Old Sacramento State Historic Park's Front Street, between J and K streets. Standing as one of Sacramento's prime tourism destinations, it was felt, after its estabishment as a State Historic Park in 1965, that it...
This 1996 postcard offers an aerial view of the Governor's Mansion and coachhouse, as taken from the southeast. As the home to California Governors from 1903 to 1967, the mansion and its grounds were named to the National Register of Historic...
The California Fruit Exchange Building, also known as the Blue Anchor Building, rests on the southwestern corner of Tenth and N Streets. This building was constructed in 1931, and this photograph was taken on November 21, 1934. The Mission and...
This May 19, 1933, photograph shows the H and S Super Service, located at 1430 Twenty-First Street. Pictured are proprietors Gene Hepting and Jack Spelbring. Hepting's keen interest in photography left a treasure trove of popular and historic...
Taken from Sutter’s Fort and looking across L Street, this circa 1933 photograph shows the Pioneer Congregational Church at 2700 L Street. Built in 1926/27 for a cost of 170,000 dollars, the concrete-shelled church was intended to memorialize...
Pictured on June 18, 1955, is the landmark sign at the Sacramento’s City Cemetery at 1000 Broadway. Attached to the facility’s main office, it states as follows: “City Cemetery; Capt. John A. Sutter donated the original ten acres to the...
This December 2, 1947, photograph shows Goodwill Industries at 1117-1121 Sixth Street. The Goodwill had been operating in Sacramento since November of 1933 and moved out of the pictured 11,000 square-foot structure in 1949 for a new facility at...
This circa 1900 photograph captures an omnibus from Sacramento’s Western Hotel. The Western was first built in 1854, but felled by fire in 1875. It was rebuilt that same year by Sacramento hostelling luminary William Land who went on to found...
This westerly view of McKinley Boulevard and, to the right, Theodore Judah School was taken on January 16, 1941, from the street’s intersection with San Antonio Way. The school, located at 3919 McKinley Boulevard, was built in 1939, and then...
This photograph of the Southern Pacific Railroad Station, at 401 I Street, was taken in 1941. Covered in the right foreground is the Collis P. Huntington locomotive. To the left is the Theodore D. Judah Memorial. The engine was built on the...
The entrance to the Masonic Temple at 1123 J Street is shown in this 1925 photograph. Flanking the doorway are two penitent Knights Templar. Between the two, and above the doorway, is an arch of impish terra cotta cherubim. Constructed between...
Numerous cars are parked at the curb in this J Street view. The Welcome Hotel at 221 J is an historic building, erected in October of 1855 by Milton S. Latham, a pioneer attorney for Sacramento and El Dorado Counties. Latham became a Congressman...
On the afternoon of July 3, 2003, construction and fire crews raze the remains of the Comstock building, located at Eighth and J Streets. Built of brick, the structure was, in part, known for the ornamental tiles that dotted its facade. They had...
Breathing its last breath on July 3, 2003, is the Comstock Building at Eighth and J Streets. The three-story building was constructed in 1861 by Leland Stanford and sold to burgeoning Sacramento businessman and native-Austrian Anthony Coolot. He...
