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This 1931 photograph captures the six-story, 78-foot-high Nicolaus Building on the northwest corner of Eighth and K Streets. The building’s most high profile tenant was the Western Pacific Railroad’s passenger department, which moved into the structure in 1911, the same year it was completed. In an interesting twist, the namesake to the building, Edward A. Nicolaus, was born in 1868, in the home that would become the Western Pacific Railroad’s company office, at Nineteenth and J Streets. Nicolaus was an original founder of the Sutter National Bank and was the supervisor of several farm holdings throughout Sacramento County. On the lobby floor of the building are the United Cigar Stores Company, Arnest’s Malted Milk Shop, Gem Jewelry Company, and Bergman’s Hats. At the time this photograph was taken, Sacramento claimed to have 73 buildings that were four-stories or higher.
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