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Description
Here is a circa-1908 view of the Hotel Sacramento under construction. Concrete made up the floors, stairways and columns. Just two to three years out from the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, the architectural firm of Sessions and Hemmings was acutely mindful of what nature could do to contemporary construction. The concrete, reinforced with iron, was intended to help the hotel respond to an earthquake with an element of elasticity, without cracking. A horse-drawn cart marked ""Sacramento Laundry"" makes the climb north, up 10th Street toward K Street.
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