{"nrhp_refnum":"66000220","name":"Pony Express Terminal","other_names":["B.F. Hastings Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1006 2nd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sacramento","county":"Sacramento County","state":"CA","lat":38.58300597300004,"lon":-121.50434711680813,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1961-07-04","areas_of_significance":["Communications"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick commercial building at 1006 Second Street, at the corner of Second and J Streets in Sacramento, California. It is nine bays along Second Street and four along J Street, and is known as the B. F. Hastings Building.","why_significant":"From April 1860 to March 1861 the building served as the western terminus of the Pony Express. It is one of only two buildings still standing associated with that episode. The form states its national significance comes from these events rather than from any architectural distinction.","narrative":"Sacramento's B. F. Hastings Building, a two-story brick structure at Second and J Streets, served as the western end of the Pony Express from April 1860 to March 1861. The overland mail service was set up by the firm of Russell, Majors, and Waddell to beat the three-month sea route around Cape Horn, and riders sometimes reached the goal of ten-day delivery from St. Joseph, Missouri. The route covered 1,838 miles with 157 stations. The venture lost money and ended when the transcontinental telegraph was completed in October 1861. Only two buildings associated with the service still stand, and this is one of them. The nomination values the building for these events, not for architectural merit. At the time of the form it was being restored: the cement Second Street facade had been removed, new brick was being laid, and the interior was being refinished to recall Sacramento's early American period after 1848. The surrounding area is a nineteenth-century style commercial district.","period_of_significance":"1860-61","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in good condition, but altered; undergoing extensive restoration with the cement Second Street facade removed, new brick and mortar laid, and the interior being refinished. Owned by the State of California.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.882463-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/66000220_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000220/bfc19b650b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000220/bfc19b650b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"BenFranske","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B._F._Hastings_Bank_Building_in_Sacramento,_California.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">BenFranske</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B._F._Hastings_Bank_Building_in_Sacramento,_California.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"66000219","name":"Old Sacramento Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/california/old-sacramento-historic-district-66000219/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858002","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express_Terminal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7228455"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/sacramento-county/pony-express-terminal-66000220/"}