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Added to NRHP. May 6, 1971. The Crocker Art Museum is the oldest art museum in the Western United States, located in Sacramento, California. [ 3 ] Founded in 1885, the museum holds one of the premier collections of Californian art. The collection includes American works dating from the Gold Rush to the present, European paintings and master ...
The history of Sacramento, California, began with its founding by Samuel Brannan and John Augustus Sutter, Jr. in 1848 around an embarcadero that his father, John Sutter, Sr. constructed at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers a few years prior. Sacramento was named after the Sacramento River, which forms its western border.
1021 O Street is a 10-story office building located in downtown Sacramento, two blocks south of the California State Capitol.Currently known as the Capitol Annex Swing Space, the building was built to house offices for the California State Legislature, the Governor of California, and other state officials during the replacement of the Capitol Annex, a 1952 office building attached to the east ...
Heilbron House. The Heilbron House is a historic mansion in Downtown Sacramento, California. Built in 1881, it was initially the home of August Heilbron, a cattle rancher, merchant, and landowner who came from Germany. The home is located just around the corner from Leland Stanford 's iconic Stanford Mansion —marking the area as an upscale ...
Looking NW at 10th and L streets from the Capitol, c.1900 Looking west down M Street towards the old bridge, 1911. Following California's cession by Mexico and entry into the union as a state in 1850, San Jose, Vallejo, and Benicia each briefly served as the state Capitol until the legislature decided Sacramento best suited their needs for the state in 1854.
Website. www.californiamuseum.org. The California Museum is the state history museum of California, located in its capital city of Sacramento and housed within the Secretary of State building complex. It is home to the California Hall of Fame. Maria Shriver, former First Lady of California and founder of the California Hall of Fame.
Masjid Annur Islam Center in Sacramento, California is the largest mosque in the greater Sacramento area of Northern California. [citation needed] The Masjid Annur Islam Center offers classes on the Arabic language, the Qur'an, Tajweed and holds events regularly throughout the year. Masjid Annur is also home to one of the only Islamic high ...
Birch Building on 2nd Street The Union Hotel, Birch Building, and Orleans Hotel (recently reconstructed). While the architecture from this period is commonly attributed to Victorian gold miners, characteristics of West End, such as multi-storied buildings, large arched doorways, full-height balcony windows and the use of decorative wrought-iron balconies, were most ubiquitous in parts of Spain ...