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The Leland Stanford Mansion, often known simply as the Stanford Mansion, is a historic mansion and California State Park in Sacramento, California, which serves as the official reception center for the Californian government and as one of the official workplaces of the governor of California.
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893) was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from California. He served as the 8th governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1885 until his death in 1893.
David B Colton Mansion 1872 Neo-classical: S. C. Bugbee & Son: San Francisco: Later bought by Collis Potter Huntington. Was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake: Leland Stanford Mansion 1876 Italianate: S. C. Bugbee & Son: San Francisco: Was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake: more images: Charles Crocker Mansion: 1877 ...
780.0 - January 8, 1863, Governor Leland Stanford turned the first spade of earth of Railroad. [5] First Transcontinental Railroad - Western base of Sierra Nevada: 780: First Transcontinental Railroad - Western base of Sierra Nevada: Haggin Oaks Municipal Golf Course, N side of clubhouse, 3645 Fulton Ave.
Governor's Mansion State Historic Park; Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument; Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park; Jack London State Historic Park; La Purísima Mission State Historic Park; Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park; Los Angeles State Historic Park; Los Encinos State Historic Park; Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park
Big Four House, a National Historic Landmark building constructed through the joint efforts of California's railroad pioneers: Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker, known as The Big Four. Lady Adams Building - oldest non-residential building in Old Sacramento and is California Historical Landmark No. 603.
The lower floors were occupied by merchants, three of whom later became The Big Four (with Charles Crocker), hence the buildings' name. The Big Four were associated with the founding of the First transcontinental railroad linking California with the Eastern U.S. — and were Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Jr., Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker.
The Leland Stanford Mansion is also used by the Governor of California for official purposes, including the reception of foreign dignitaries. The Leland Stanford Mansion, the former residence of Leland Stanford (8th Governor of California and founder of Stanford University), serves as the official reception house for the State of California. It ...