Apollo Building, 228-230 K Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Significance: The building, originally constructed as two twenty-foot wide units, was built in 1852 for Prescilla Carswell. The corner unit, adjacent to Third Street, was built at an estimated cost of $14,000 and was occupied from 1854 to 1846 by the Apollo Seed and Drug Store, operated by C. Morrill. The twenty-foot wide unit to the west was built by Lackett for Prescilla Carswell at a cost of $9,000, and was occupied by: Halliday and Company, wholesale merchants; H. Wenzel, merchant; Morehouse and Brainard, commission merchants; and others.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-72
Survey number: HABS CA-1716
Building/structure dates: 1852 Initial Construction