Lady Adams Building
The Lady Adams Building was as wholesale and import house. Arriving on the Lady Adams in 1849, four immigrants from Germany set up the wholesale store. The wholesale store started by selling good off the ship Lady Adams at the Sacramento River docks as Lady Adams Mercantile Company starting in 1849 to support the California Gold Rush boom. Part of the ships went in to building the K Street Lady Adams Building. Lady Adams Mercantile Co. went bankruptcy in 1861. In 1861 it became the Fogus & Coghill grocery store. The city had a 13-year program in the 1860s and 1870s, to raise the buildings and streets in Sacramento to stop the flooding problem in the city, like the Great Flood of 1862. The Lady Adams Building was raised 15 feet in 1865. In 1868 it became the Mebius & Company Wholesale Grocers. For some year the building was vacant in part of the 1950. The roof collapsed in 1970 from age, but was repaired. For years it has been a Historical Sacramento Evangeline’ store.
See also
- California Historical Landmarks in Sacramento County
- Adams and Company Building
- B.F. Hastings Bank Building
References
- ^ "Lady Adams Building #603". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
- ^ "Lady Adams Building Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.
- ^ "Lady Adams Building, 113-115 K Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- ^ "California Historical Landmark #603: Lady Adams Building in Sacramento County". noehill.com.
- ^ "The History of Old Sac's oldest building". SACtoday. March 22, 2022.