Big Four Building, 220-226 K Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
Summary
Significance: Originally three separate buildings erected in 1851-1852. The lower floor was occupied by merchants, three of whom later were associated with the founding of the first transcontinental railway linking California with the East. The second floor of these structures served as the first offices of the Central Pacific Railway, 1862-1873.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-50
Survey number: HABS CA-1170
Building/structure dates: 1852 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000541
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Stanford, Leland
Stanford, Josiah
Hunington, Collis P
Miller, Morgan
Location
Sacramento (Calif.), 38.61155, -121.34136
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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