1897 - Emporium - Jamestown, CA
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saopaulo1
N 37° 57.125 W 120° 25.416
10S E 726366 N 4203629
The Emporium building in Jamestown, CA.
Waymark Code: WM79Q0
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/24/2009
Views: 3
""Built in 1897, during the Second Gold Rush, the commercial brick building was erected by J. W. Witney. The architect and builder was C. H. Wilson. This rectangular brick two-story building, with original living quarters on the second floor and sales room and offices on the first, is a late-Victorian with Eastlake details. The building was a pioneer department store, occupied by Witney for six months, then acquired by Moses Arendt, who managed the business until 1928 when he sold it to Jim Porter and Peter Barendregt. It served as the county telephone exchange from 1906-1923. From 1935 until 1967, it housed the Barendregt grocery store. Basically unaltered from its original form, it remains one of the most imposing business buildings in Jamestown and Tuolumne County." (
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