The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-05-21
Progress Made Since the Days of ,49-
A City of Homes, Churches
and Schools.

@tAtNeuASSr iASIS temporary dIalrS, the
city grew up. Floods and fires came, and
among these low, cheap buildings played
havoc and loaded upon the city enormous
deb, but the restoration gave us only
slightly better buildings.
With the subsistence of the gold fever,
however, some idea of remaining in Cali
tornia was entertained. and so the people
began 10 build a little better When till
ing the soil became an industry the idea
OF permanency became conviction and
architecture took on something of pre-
sentable torm-still it was low and
squatty and without any sensible ideas of
beauty or finish.
y NEW ERA.
When the era OF commerce sIID,Ie-
mented that OF soil culture, and Sacra-
mento ceased TO be a mining entrepot,
the people began TO think of the appear
ance OF their city; business blocks were
planned and erected, still low and with
but little grace, but nevertheless i'm
prOVementS. But with each wear GREAT
progress has been made. Now, while the
lower or business sections Of the city are
still pltted by small structures. offensive
10 the eye, the evidences abound that the
city is in the full tide of that transition
period from the old to the new, from the
temporary to the permanent, from the
rndenesS OF the pioneer era to the grace
and beauty Of the settled state, in which
the eSthelc has some sway.
y PERIOD OF TRANSITION.
Progress was earlier and rapid in the
residence sections. and Sacramento IS
justly proud to-day OF her homes; homes
IN young city that for modest beauty
and amplitude Of handsome grounds
would do credit TO the older cities of the
East. There are many residences indeed
that are level with the dignity of man
sions; rs, for instance, those Of Governor
Stanford, estate OF Charles Croker, III.
O. Smith, Joseph Steftens, w. L. ferry,
Il. Mebius, j. y. Cardwell, Charles Me
Creary, y. a. Van VOORHEES,, L. Tolcr.
Mrs. Margaret e. Crocker two resi-
dences and others. The less pretentious
but beautiful residences are numbered by
the many hundreds.
STREETS AND GARDENS.
These are located upon broad. graveled,
wall-kept streets, heavily Shaden for the
most part by handsome trees and semi
tropical shrubbery. They have wealth
of room, lawns green the year round, and
gardens, in which some flowers are in
bloom every month Of the twelve Ever
green trees do not abound upon the street
lines, but they are countless in lawns and
gardens, and palms OF many varieties,
orange, lemon and lime trees, ornament
hundreds of plats.
PUBLIC STRUCTURES.
To specify public structures in detail
would occupy altogether too much space.
We are, therefore, compelled 10 make
breVlty virtue III such mention of nota-
bic public buildings as Sacramento takes
special pride in
THE CAPITOL.
Chief among these is the State CAPITOL.
situate IN beautiful 20-acre park in the
heart OF the city. It's architecture is
CLASSIC and strongly suggestive OF that
distinguishing the National Capitol at
Washington. It's dome rises 30 feet
above the level ofthe surrounding streets.
The building cost about =. COG. 900 and is
one OF the most substantially built eGifi-
ces in the country. 1t stands upon an
elevation formed by two terraces to give
the approaches the effect intended orIci-
Gaily TO have been achieved by massive
flights of marble steps and an additional
story-a plan that was abandoned after
the building was well under wav The
Assembly, Senate and Library Chambers
are elegant apartments. rich in ornamen-
tatIon, but preserving the classic charac-
ter OF design. Beneath thes inner dome
IN the lower rotunda IS superb piece OF
sculpture, Columbus before isabella
which was purchased by d. Q. Mills at a
cost OF SoO.JOO and presented to the State.
THE ART GALLERY.
The p. B. Croker Art Gallery, belong
ing to the city and Jointly occupied by it
and the California Museum Association.
was presented to the people by Mrs. Mar
garet IL. Croker, whose husband. the late
Judge II. :. Crocher, erected it at a cost
Saflousiy supposed to run from So )G to
siOo,c0o. IL IS situated in beautiful
grounds, is OF modern style, massive,
severe IN exterior ornamentation, but in
the interior wonderfully ornate and
bFilllant IN thing, tresco, gold and GRIM
son, Corinthian columns and polished
dark woods with golden laural panels.
IN the gallery is a collection of paint
lngS, '0O IN number, and, with 5000
studies In portfolios, valued at quarter
OF mllIlon dollars. On the lower Il cor
IS The State Mineral Cabinet, and on the
main floor the Sacramento School of De-
sign. under w. (. Jackson, in the most
beautiful art study room in the United
states. Inc Museum Association has
added, by gift to it from d. Lubn, some
beautiful statuary, the beginning OF a
museum Of natural history, and has also
q respectable library nucleus and we'll
filled her5ariutI, collected by its botanist,
DIR. Pyburn. III this building wood
carving classes are taught also by Pro-
lessor Collin
BASKS-CATHEDRAL.
The California State Bank and Suffer
Club building is a notably fine structure
OF red sandstone, an imposing and hand
some building. and one of the best OF the
class in the country. The new Federal
building of Arizona sandstone is now
we'll On toward completion, and viii be
an imposing and important business
building. The Cathedral Of the Holy
Sacrament is the largest church structure
III interior California. 1t is a superbly
commanding edifce. It's general form is
that OF Latin cross, with an octagonal
dome at the intersection of the arms. The
central tower on the front rises 20 feet
above the street. and is thanked by two
smaller towers, each $50 feet in hight The
cathedral IS EOS feet i'll length by LOS feet
| IN width. The dome rises IL feet above
the floor, and its silylight of stained glass
! Is twenty-one feet in diameter. The
building cost S250, 000
RAILROAD sHoPs-oTHER WORKS
! The works OF the Central Pacific Rail-
| road Company, just north of the large
| and handsome depot building, contain
| the largest mechanical structures in the
city. Ihey are many, and cover nearly
twenty acres OF ground. They ara the
! best-t1tted with fine machinery of any
| buildings upon the coast. The Buffalo
! Brewing and Ice Company mas large
/ and massive building with lesser adj
| Juncts, forming the largest factory of its
| Kind upon the coast. The Weinstock,
I LuDiu u 20. business DOCK. WIFI It's
novel arcaded front on the lower story, rs
/ the largest and handsomest mercantile
/ establishment in the State. There is not
one in San Francisco OF greater capacity
/ or such admirable arrangement.
Bank building of d. .. Mills Bank:
/ the Sacramento Bank building; the Hale
/ Brothers mercantile block, containing
one Of the finest and largest mercantile
| businesses in the STATE: the Masonic Tenn
( pie, three-story modern building of
! handsome proportions; odd Fellows
| Temple, very lofty and ornate building