As viewed from the southwest, in this circa 1930 postcard, is the interior of Sutter's Fort, at Twenty-Seventh and L streets. Most visible is the structure's central building. In the distance, located at 2719 K Street, is the three-story Eastern...
Shown in June 1905, at the northeast corner of Seventh and K streets, is Sacramento's Post Office and Federal Building. The structure's trademark tower reached three stories above the roof of the roof and topped out at 128 feet. In addition to the...
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...
This November 3, 1932, photograph shows the Saint Patrick’s Home for Children at 5945 Franklin Boulevard. The 250,000 dollar structure was dedicated on August 1, 1932, and received its first tenants three weeks later. It replaced a similar...
This photograph of the I Street Bridge, originally known as the Southern Pacific Bridge, was taken in 1911, just one year prior to the 1,000,000 dollar structure's official opening. The view comes from the West Sacramento side of the Sacramento...
This nighttime photograph of one of Sacramento’s most recognizable landmarks, the Tower Bridge, was taken in 1940. The Capitol dome, on the left side of the picture, has been superimposed. The earliest official support for a replacement for the...
This 1879 photograph captures a youngish California State Capitol building as viewed from the corner of Tenth and L Streets. The building's raised posture was due to a desire to avoid flooding. Accordingly, in 1862, workers hauled wheelbarrows of...
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...
The front of the nave of the Westminster Presbyterian Church at Thirteenth and N Streets is visible in this June 16, 1928, photograph. Below the centered tapestry sits the church’s choir loft and 15,000 dollar pipe organ, a four manual echo...
This 1929 photograph shows a man putting on the green at the ninth hole at the Del Paso Country Club. In the background is the clubhouse which was built in 1916. The structure's interior was adorned with oak furniture and a number of...
This circa 1925 photograph shows a group of uniformed soldiers in front of the Armory of the National Guard of California, located at Twelfth and W streets. Built in 1914 by the Ransome Company and various sub-contractors, the structure's first...
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.
Pictured in 1939, at the corner of Eleventh and N Streets are the Lewis Apartments. Built in 1926 for 350,000 dollars by Manuel and Anna Lewis, the seven floor, 38-unit structure contained apartments of two, three and four rooms. The architect...
This circa 1980 postcard shows the Westminster Presbyterian Church, as seen from Capitol Park, and standing watch over N Street. Prominent is the Byzantine-style structure's 137-foot-high tower and 87-foot-high dome. The church, built in 1926/27,...
A dilapidated central building at Sutter's Fort is the subject of this circa 1885 postcard. The full resoration of the building and the entire fort in September 1891, when contractor George W. Murray, Jr., layed the first adobe brick, fired in a...
This 1915 postcard shows the Northern Electric Railroad's bridge, spanning the Sacramento River at M Street. Built of steel in 1911, and supported by five piers that penetrated as much as 60 feet below the river bed, the structure boasted a single...
Depicted in circa 1940 is Sacramento's Tower Bridge, as seen from the West Sacramento, California. Built in 1935, the bridge's name was taken from a naming contest. Although Tower was chosen in respect to the structure's lift towers, other...
This circa 1940 postcard shows the Memorial Auditorium, located on the northeast corner of Fifteenth and J streets. Built in 1925/27, the structure's foundation -- measuring an area of 216 feet by 262 feet -- required the driving of some 1,100...
Sacramento Room Postcard Collection
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