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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Adventure 051, Site 111 – Confidence Firehouse and Hall

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Adventure: 051, Site 111 – Confidence Firehouse and Hall
National Registry ID: 82002174
Placerville Local Registry ID: 1

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 43.78′ N
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Address: 487 Main Street, Placerville CA

Description:
Date Built: 1860


 The name of the building comes from a fire engine Placerville bought in 1860. After bying the engine, they found out that the engraving could not be removed. So it was easier to rename the building than the engine. Being both a firestation and a hall, it served severall groups. Later on in 1902, this building became the Placerville City Hall. It was also used for offices and the city library. In 2005, the city hall moved and the building has been vacant.



Building Plaque Says:
This building was erected in the fall of 1860 for Confidence Engine Company No. 1, organized in June 1857. City government located here since 1902.
Placed by Marguerite Parlor No. 12 N.D.G.W. and Placerville Parlor No. 9 N.S.G.W., May 13, 1954.
A plaque on the gold and white building (adjuncant building)east of the Confidence Building reads:
Emigrant Jane drove a band of horses across the plains and from the proceeds of their sale she erected this building in 1861.
Placed by Marguerite Parlor No. 12 Native Daughters of the Golden West, May 13, 1954.



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Location: 487 Main St, Placerville, CA 95667, USA

Adventure 051, Site 104 – Upper Central House

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Adventure: 051, Site 104 – Upper Central House

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 43.736′ N
Longitude: 120° 47.793′ W
Address: Main Street and Clay Street, Placerville, CA

Description:


We came to a parking lot with a plaque. What does it mean? Well, up until 1964, a hotel stood here. It was the only hotel operating from the time of the gold rush. The marker was placed in 1962. Another hotel, called the Ivy Hotel was here as well.



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First operated by Elias Parker, only Gold Rush hotel still standing in Placerville. Used as the Placerville Academy School from 1871 – 1894. Dedicated May 6, 1962, by Marguerite Parlor No.12, Native Daughters of the Golden West on their 75th anniversary.
The site of the Ivy House hotel, so named because of the Ivy covered facade. The first hotel, the Central House, was built on this site in 1864. At this site also was the Placerville Academy. The Ivy House was torn down in 1964 when it was deemed too fragile to save. Source: Placerville Walking Tour



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Location: Main St & Clay St, Placerville, CA 95667, USA

Adventure 051, Site 109 – Snowshoe Thompson

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Adventure: 051, Site 109 – Snowshoe Thompson
No numbered marker, but has plaque and mural

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 43.673′ N
Longitude: 120° 48.197′ W
Address: SW corner of Main and Sacramento, Placerville

 Description:
After wandering around Placerville and having a really good lunch at Bricks—we had dinner there a few months ago after backpacking. We saw that there was a plaque right by where we already had been-the Pony Express marker. This person sounded really interesting, so off we went and easily found Thompson's marker. Today's adventurers have nothing over Thompson. Read a short biography of him to find out why. Then to think he did his work of delivering the US Mail and was not paid for it. Amazing Man.



From the HMDB Site:
In 1851, a 24-year-old Norwegian man named John Thompson* headed for fortune in California. He prospected around Placerville at Coon Hollow and Kelsey's Diggings, then tried ranching in the Sacramento Valley. In 1856, he read about the mail delivery struggle over the Sierra Nevada mountains. He made snowshoes, but not like the flat, heavy ones used by Indians and trappers of the West and Canada. They resembled skis, but were heavier and clumsier. The first skis he made were 10 feet long and weighed 25 pounds. (Subsequent skis were recorded at 9 feet long, then seven.) Folks in Placerville laughed when they first saw him and his long skis, but they soon came to admire and encourage him when they realized he might get the mail through. He started his twenty-year career delivering the mail over the mountains in 1856. He became a necessity and a fixed institution in the mountains, providing the only land communication between the Atlantic states and California.
Thompson's first trip from Placerville to Carson Valley was made in January of 1856. It was a 90-mile trip in which he often glided over snow drifts 30 to 50 feet deep. The mail packs he carried were 60 to 80 pounds, and sometimes over 100 pounds. It took three days uphill to get to Carson Valley, and two days to return to Placerville, 45 miles a day through complete wilderness. He carried little food, used snow for water, dressed lightly, and carried no blanket, due to his mail load. When he had to sleep, or when the night prevented his traveling, he tried to find a stump of a dead pine to make camp. He set the stump on fire, collected spruce and fir boughs to sleep on, rested his head on the mail pouch and put his feet at the fire. There he slept, with 10 to 30 feet of snow beneath him.
In his travels he helped many a stranded traveler in the wilderness. He made his home in Diamond Valley on the eastern side of the Sierras. "Snowshoe" Thompson died at 49 years old on May 15, 1876, and was buried at Genoa. His only son Arthur, who died June 22, 1878 at 11 years 4 months old, was buried by his side.
*It is thought that his Norwegian name was Tostensen and the proper English translation Thomson, instead of Thompson






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Location: Sacramento St & Main St, Placerville, CA 95667, USA

Adventure 051, Site 101 – Pony Express Route - Placeville

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Adventure: 051, Site 101 – Pony Express Route - Placeville
California Landmark Number: 701

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 43.673′ N
Longitude: 120° 48.197′ W
Address: SW corner of Main and Sacramento, Placerville


Description:
Our third Pony Express landmark on this trip. This one is right when you come into the town from the west. We found a place to park and then walked back to this marker. We missed the other marker which was right beside this one—we did come back and pick up the Snowshoe Thompson plaque.



NO. 701 PLACERVILLE-OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS ROUTE IN CALIFORNIA - Gold rush town and western terminus of the Placerville-Carson Road to the Comstock, Placerville was a relay station of the Central Overland Pony Express from April 4, 1860 until June 30, 1861. Here on April 4, 1860, the first eastbound pony rider, William (Sam) Hamilton, changed horses, added an express letter to his mochila, and sped away for Sportsman's Hall. Placerville was the western terminus of the Pony Express from July 1, 1861 until its discontinuance on October 26, 1861.
Location: SW corner of Main and Sacramento, Placerville



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Location: Sacramento St & Main St, Placerville, CA 95667, USA

Adventure 051, Site 090 – New Helvetia Cemetary

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Adventure: 051, Site 090 – New Helvetia Cemetary
California Landmark Number: 592


Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 34.373′ N
Longitude: 121° 27.901′ W
Address: J Street and Alhambra Boulevard, Sacramento

Description:
Date Built: 1849

After not finding the Jewish Cemetery, close by. It was sort of interesting to see the plaque for the New Helvetia Cemetery by a school—at least it was easy to spot. Thing One guesses Sacramento honoring of their ancient dead takes on a different form.



NO. 592 NEW HELVETIA CEMETERY - This was the site of Sacramento's first cemetery, established by Captain John A. Sutter in 1849.
Location: NE corner of Alhambra Blvd and J St, Sacramento



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Location: J St & Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95816, USA

Adventure 051, Site 086 – Cranston-Geary House

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Adventure: 051, Site 086 – Cranston-Geary House
National Registry ID: 1997001662

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: N 38.579601288
Longitude: W 121.476837158
Address: 2101 G Street, Sacramento, CA



Description:
Date Built: 1909
Architect: George C. Sellon



According to Bizjournal, the Cranston-Geary house is one of Sacramento's finest gems. George Sellon was the State's first architect. The house itself almost looks Japanese in nature.



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Location: 2101 G St, Sacramento, CA 95816, USA

Adventure 051, Site 089 - General John Sutter

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Adventure: 051, Site 089 - General John Sutter
There is not a marker number, but it is referenced in several places

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 34.305′ N
Longitude: 121° 28.207′ W
Address: 28th Street and L Street, Sacramento, CA

Description:
Date Built: 1937




This statue is across the street from the Columa Road plaque. The statue and its plaque commemorate the man General John Sutter and all which he accomplished. It was put there by the Swiss people who regard him as one of their heroes. Sutter died poor, having been overrun by the prosperity and greed he helped to create.



Inscription:
Swiss Immigrant
Founder of New Helvetia
The beginning of Sacramento
Builder of Sutter’s Fort
A man of vision and compassion who deserves the respect and gratitude of Americans and Swiss



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Location: L St & 28th St, Sacramento, CA 95816, USA

Adventure 051, Site 088 – Columa Road

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Adventure: 051, Site 088 – Columa Road
California Landmark Number: 745


Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 34.311′ N
Longitude: 121° 28.224′ W
Address: NE corner of 28th and L Sts, Sacramento

Description:


Goldminers needed to start down this road to go to get to th gold fields. We did not have to go nearly so far for this marker—just a few hundred feet down L St. So it was not a strenuous adventure, just an informative adventure since neither one of us knew about this road before.



NO. 745 THE COLOMA ROAD-SUTTER'S FORT - Sutter's Fort, established by Capt. John A. Sutter in August 1839, marked the western end of the Coloma Road. Opened in 1847, this road ran from the fort to Sutter's sawmill at Coloma. Used by James W. Marshall in January 1848 to bring the news of the gold discovery to Sutter, it was traversed later by thousands of miners going to and from the diggings. In 1849 the Coloma Road became the route of California's first stageline, established by James E. Birch.
Location: NE corner of 28th and L Sts, Sacramento



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Location: L St & 28th St, Sacramento, CA 95816, USA

Adventure 051, Site 087 – Sutter's Fort

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Adventure: 051, Site 087 – Sutter's Fort
California Landmark Number: 525
National Registry ID: 1966000221

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 27, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 34.341′ N
Longitude: 121° 28.25′ W
Address: 2701 L St, Sacramento

Description:
Date Built: 1839



We are on our way out of town and the history bug has gotten hold of Thing One and Thing Two—we are returning back to Fresno via the slower, but more scenic and historic route. We are starting a bit early. We need to stop at Sutter's Fort, what history trip to Sacramento can resist stopping here? Well, it is closed and will not open for a little while. So we look and walk around the fort, but then we have to leave—we do find other landmarks in the area. But more about that in later posts.



NO. 525 SUTTER'S FORT - John Augustus Sutter, born of Swiss parents in Germany, arrived in New York in July 1834 and in California in July 1839. He founded the fort in 1839 to protect 'New Helvetia,' his 76-square-mile Mexican land grant. Of the original fort, the two-story central building, made of adobe and oak, remains, the fort's outer walls and rooms, which had disappeared by the 1860s, were reconstructed after the State acquired the property in 1890.
Location: Sutter's Fort State Historic Park, 27th and L Sts, Sacramento



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Location: 2701 L St, Sacramento, CA 95816, USA

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Adventure 051, Site 184 – Eagle Theater

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Adventure: 051, Site 184 – Eagle Theater
California Landmark Number: 595

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 26, 2012
Location:
Latitude:38.58369°N
Longitude: 121.50514°W
Address: 925 Front St, Sacramento, CA

Description:
Date Built: 1849 original rebuilt 1974



The Eagle Theatre was a very unassuming little building. Thing One and Thing Two did not think it had so much history but who would of known? It was the first permanent theatre to be built in California. It was built in 1849 as a wood-framed and canvas-covered with a tin roof and an earth floor. The structure was flooded in 1850. It had an array of different “acts” for a rough Wild West crowd. The theatre is currently part of the Old Sacramento State Historic Park. It is rumored to be haunted by the original Owner. It was featured on Ghost Adventures.



NO. 595 EAGLE THEATER - This is the site of the first building in California constructed as a theater in 1849. The theater was reconstructed in 1974.
Location: Old Sacramento State Historic Park, 925 Front St, Sacramento



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Location: 925 Front St, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA

Adventure 051, Site 182 - I Street Bridge


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Adventure: 051, Site 182 - I Street Bridge
National Registry ID: 1982002233

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 26, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38.586244°N
Longitude: 121.506254°W
Address: Route 16 over Sacramento River

Description:
Date Built: 1911
Architect: American Bridge Company
Maintained by: Southern Pacific Railroad



We could see the bridge as we toured Old Sacramento. Thing One and Thing Two love to walk so looked forward to walking across the bridge. When we looked back at Old Sacramento we had a great view of the City. Even thought it was on the National Historic Registry, we could not find the plaque for this bridge

The first bridge across Sacramento was in 1857 at Broad and D Street. Later CA Pacific Railroad (later becoming Southern Pacific Railroad) obtained a permit to build a bridge above the highway bridge. Trains first entered Sacramento in 1870. This was a toll bridge. The bridge was rebuilt in 1878 by the railroad. In 1893 S.P., along with Sacramento and Yolo Counties, began the construction of joint wooden bridge for railroad and highway use, which was completed in 1895. In 1911 the current I street bridge was built and the previous bridge removed.

The I Street Bridge is described as a double-deck steel truss bridge comprised offixed and swing spans, with steel stringer and welded steel girder approach spans. The truss spans are Baltimore trusses with sub-struts. The lower deck of the bridge carries the double-track main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, while the concrete upper deck carries State Highway 16.

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Location: I St Bridge, West Sacramento, CA 95605, USA

Adventure 051, Site 183 - What Cheer Hotel



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Adventure: 051, Site 183 - What Cheer Hotel
California Landmark Number: 597
Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 26, 2012
Location:
Latitude: N 38° 34.939
Longitude: W 121° 30.350
Address: K and Front St, Sacramento, CA

Description:
Date Built: 1853

Old Sacramento was so interesting but we could not find all the historical facts that we wanted. We were wondering about What Cheer Hotel but there was no plaque but it is a California Landmark number so we snapped a picture. We were hoping the Internet we give up more information, but all we found was that during 1855, State offices were housed here. That explains some things about our State, but it does make us wonder more.

The What Cheer Hotel was restored by Angello Vitiello Associates, which one of the partners, Joseph Angello took a personal interest in its reconstruction. We could not find out why.



NO. 597 WHAT CHEER HOUSE - The celebrated hotel was constructed on this site in 1853. State offices were located here in 1855.
Location: SE corner of Front and K Sts, Sacramento



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Location: K St & Front St, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA

Adventure 051, Site 077 – Alkali Flats District

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Adventure: 051, Site 077 – Alkali Flats District
National Registry ID: 1984000933 - North
National Registry ID: 1984000929 - Central
National Registry ID: 1984000936 - West

Team: Thing One, Thing Two

Date:  September 26, 2012
Location:
Address: Roughly an area between D and F Streets and 9th and 12th Streets, Sacramento, CA

Description:

There are three historical Districts which we wandered through. All of the place we would say, that house looks historic, this house surely must have a plaque. It was only until later on did we realize that the whole area is historical. This is because it is the oldest remaining neighborhood in Sacramento. An example of a house like this is the Johnson house at 1029 F St. It is on the national registry of historical sites (76000512 ). Another house is the Minor H Allen House, which has a plaque on it—See adventure 051, site 080) and the Hubbard-Upton House (adventure 051, site 081).



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Location: 601-699 I St, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA

Adventure 051, Site 085 – Folsom Powerhouse Station

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Adventure: 051, Site 085 – Folsom Powerhouse Station
California Landmark Number: 633-2


Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 26, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 35.038′ N
Longitude: 121° 29.86′ W
Address: 6th and H St, Sacramento, CA

Description:
Date Built: 1894

Well, we have seen the Hall of Justice, when Thing Two says, is that a plaque across the street? This is like an Easter Egg hunt. Plaques all over the place—it is just we are having to travel a bit for them. This one is on an old vacant brick building. Looks sort of small by our standards today. But a plaque is a plaque and it is a California Landmark. This was the substation of the main powerhouse at Folsom.



NO. 633-2 OLD FOLSOM POWERHOUSE-SACRAMENTO STATION A - The first distribution point of electricity for a major city, Station A was constructed in 1894 by the Sacramento Electric Power and Light Company to receive power generated from Folsom Powerhouse. The first transmission of electricity was on July 13, 1895. This power distribution network resulted in the first overhead wire streetcar system in the Central Valley.
Location: NE corner of 6th and H Sts, Sacramento



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Location: H St & 6th St, Sacramento, California 95814, USA

Adventure 051, Site 084 – First Sacramento State Capitol/First Sacramento Courthouse

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Postcard of Courthouse from HMDB
Adventure: 051, Site 084 – First Sacramento State Capitol/First Sacramento Courthouse
California Landmark Number: 869


Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 26, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 34.957′ N
Longitude: 121° 29.824′ W
Address: 7th and I Streets, Sacramento, CA

Description:

It is getting towards the end of the afternoon. Thing One and Thing Two are getting a bit tired, after all our historic walk—the walk is to historic sites, not that it is historic—has taken us around 12 miles. But we continue on. After all, there is a plaque before us. It is the site of the first California State Capitol . Actually the legislature met here on several occasions when the State Capitol building was not available. In between times, it served as Sacramento's first courthouse.



NO. 869 SITE OF FIRST AND SECOND STATE CAPITOLS AT SACRAMENTO - Sacramento's first County Courthouse, formerly located on this site, served as California's State Capitol from January 16, 1852 to May 4, 1852 and from March 1, 1854 to May 15, 1854, when it housed the third and fifth sessions of the State Legislature.
Location: NW corner of 7th and I Sts, Sacramento



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Sacramento’s first county courthouse, formerly located on this site, served as California’s State Capital from January 16, 1852 to May 4, 1852 for the third session of the legislature and from March 1, 1854 to May 15, 1854 for the fifth session. Destroyed by fire on July 13, 1854, it was rebuilt in less than six months. The second courthouse served as the Capital from 1855 – 1869 when a transition began to the current Statehouse. A third courthouse occupied this site and remained until replaced by the County Jail in 1989.



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Location: I St & 7th St, Sacramento, CA 94203, USA

Adventure 051, Site 083 – African American Episcopal Church

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Adventure: 051, Site 083 – African American Episcopal Church
California Landmark Number: 1013

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 26, 2012
Location:
Latitude: 38° 35.053′ N
Longitude: 121° 29.762′ W
Address: 715 Seventh St, Sacramento

Description:
Thing One and Thing Two almost missed this plaque. We knew we were close to it, but we were looking for a church building. It was on the side of a roadway. Not very scenic. But still, it is meaningful.


NO. 1013 SITE OF THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH ESTABLISHED ON THE PACIFIC COAST - This is the site of the first church building associated with an African American religious congregation on the Pacific Coast. The church was the Methodist Church of Colored People of Sacramento City, formally organized in 1850. In 1851 the congregation was admitted into the African Methodist Episcopal Church, becoming the first African Methodist Episcopal Church on the Pacific Coast. First known as Bethel, the name was later changed to St. Andrews. The original 1850 wooden church building was the site of the first statewide convention of the California Colored Citizens which met November 20-22, 1855.
Location: 715 Seventh St, Sacramento



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Location: 715 7th St, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA

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

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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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Adventure 051, Site 078 – Williams/Van Voorhies House

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Adventure: 051, Site 078 – Williams/Van Voorhies House
National Registry ID: 1977000328

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 26, 2012
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Address: 925 H St, Sacramento, CA

Description:
Date Built: 1868
Architect: Charles Gate



The Van Voorhies house is now a Youth Hostel. Unfortunately, there is a sign posted on the gate, asking not to enter the premises, unless you are a house guest. So being respectful of others property, we are content with taking pictures from the front.



Van Voohries was a harness maker from Holland. During his early time in California, he lived in foothills about Sacramento. As he got more established, he came to own a saddlery shop in Sacramento at 3rd and J st and lived right down from there on H St. The catalog from his shop can still be seen online.



As a note: There is another Van Voohries House at 925 G St. This one is adventure 051, site 082






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Location: 925 H St, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA

Adventure 051, Site 081 – Hubbard-Upton House

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Adventure: 051, Site 081 – Hubbard-Upton House
National Registry ID: 1977000327

Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date:  September 26, 2012
Location:
Latitude: N 38° 35.066
Longitude: W 121° 29.467
Address: 1010 F Street, Sacramento, CA

Description:
Date Built: 1856



Even though the afternoon was warm, it was pleasant walking though this neighborhood, with its mature broad-leafed trees. The shade provided a good backdrop to these houses. When we came to the Hubbard-Upton House, it seems to fit right in to this Alkali Flats neighborhood.



From Waymarking:
The Gothic revival house was built by Dr. Victor J. Fourgeaud. The house is one of the last “castellated” Gothic revival examples in California. The building is different because it gets narrower as it moves from front to back. This construction was designed to utilize the “Delta” breezes of the Sacramento valley to cool the interior of the house by facilitating cross-ventilation.


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Location: 1010 F St, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA

Adventure 051, Site 080 – Minor H. Allen House

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Adventure: 051, Site 080 – Minor H. Allen House

National Registry ID: Unknown, may be part of the Alkali Flats registry.


Team: Thing One, Thing Two

Date:  September 26, 2012
Location:
Address: 800 block of F St, Sacramento, CA

Description:

This house was not on our list of historical sites. As we were looking for another house, we saw a plaque on this house. Who could resist adding it to our our list? Later on, we looked at several web sites and was not able to find any reference to the building.






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Location: 800 F St, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA
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