{"nrhp_refnum":"78000742","name":"Coolot Company Building","other_names":["Comstock Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"812 J St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sacramento","county":"Sacramento County","state":"CA","lat":38.58082743500006,"lon":-121.49575128799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story rectangular brick commercial building at 812 J Street in downtown Sacramento, California, built circa 1855-1863, with a basement that provides a third floor. It is also known as the Comstock Building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building's 1920s tile facade is artistically significant as a fine example of California Arts and Crafts influence on a Sacramento commercial front. It is described as the only known facade in Sacramento to incorporate Ernest Batchelder tile. The building also has a long commercial history tied to the Coolot family business.","narrative":"Located at 812 J Street in downtown Sacramento, this narrow two-story brick commercial building dates to roughly 1855-1863. Its basement was added when downtown buildings were raised after the floods of the 1860s. Land records link it to Leland Stanford, and Anthony Coolot ran a variety and notion business there until 1900, later adding a cigar factory. The second floor served as hotel rooms from 1886. Its best-known feature is a front finished around 1920 with Ernest Batchelder arts and crafts tiles in earth browns with turquoise glaze, forming a cornice and surrounds for the entry and windows. The tile was authenticated by a specialist in California Arts and Crafts work, and it is described as the only known Batchelder tilework of artistic significance on a Sacramento facade. Inside, a 1920s bank vault and sealed second-floor rooms with original doors and wainscoting survived. Later records indicate the building was destroyed by fire in 2003.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Later correspondence in the file (2003) reports the building burned to the ground and asks that it be removed from the Register; the removal had not been processed at the time of that correspondence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.384287-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/78000742.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000742/931db1763d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000742/931db1763d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Ed Anderson, HABS photographer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coolot_Building_(Sacramento,_CA).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Anderson, HABS photographer</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coolot_Building_(Sacramento,_CA).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860567","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolot_Company_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5167528"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/sacramento-county/coolot-company-building-78000742/"}