Adventure 051, Site 082 – Van Voohries House – G St

Capture California, the Game-2012

Adventure: 051, Site 082 – Van Voohries House – G St

A plaque at the site, saying this was the Van Voohries house.

Team: Thing One, Thing Two

Date:  September 26, 2012

Location:

Latitude: N 38° 35.029

Longitude: W 121° 29.541

Address: 925 G St, Sacramento, CA

Description:

Imagine our surprise and confusion—we can only imagine what Capture California's reaction is—when we came across a second Van Voohries plaque, just a block away from the first. What we think probably happened is that the Vaan Voohries' probably lived at one of these two sites. Then later on moved to the other—or maybe the house got moved.



After doing some digging—Thing One thinks that this is the site where the house was. The H St is where it was moved to. See Adventure 051, Site 78 for the other Van Voohries adventure)



Inscription from Waymarking:
"The Van Voorhies mansion constructed in 1868 by Charles Cate was first occupied and later purchased by Albert Voorhies, prominent saddle and harness maker.

It is one of the few remaining brick Victorian building in Sacramento and is unique in having brownstone facade.

Purchased by the county of Sacramento in 1973 and it was structurally restored by Sacramento Heritage Inc. in 1976 and later purchased by Steven and Pamela A Bair for law offices.




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