{"nrhp_refnum":"83001225","name":"Old Tavern","other_names":["Sacramento Brewery"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2801 Capitol Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sacramento","county":"Sacramento County","state":"CA","lat":38.57076303400004,"lon":-121.470134643,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A multi-story stucco and half-timber commercial and residential building at 2801 Capitol Avenue in Sacramento, California. It grew from 1870s brick brewery structures built by M. Madden and was remodeled in the early 1920s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues local significance in commercial history and architecture. The building shows more than a century of change, from a brewery to a tavern with apartments to a hospital wing. Its 1870s brick first floor survives beneath a 1920s English Revival and Arts and Crafts remodeling, and it is one of few early commercial buildings in Sacramento to survive.","narrative":"Located at the northeast corner of 28th Street and Capitol Avenue in Sacramento, the Old Tavern began as the Sacramento Brewery. Peter Scheld hired builder M. Madden in the 1870s to construct a group of attached two-story brick buildings with arched ground-floor openings. A brewery operated on the site from the early 1850s until Prohibition closed it in 1917. In 1922 the building was bought by Frank Bottaro and remodeled with added upper floors, intersecting gabled roofs, stucco and half-timber finishes, and Arts and Crafts window bands and brackets. It then housed a tavern below and apartments above, later serving as a bar. Sutter Hospital bought it in 1967, and it now functions as a hospital wing with one-story concrete block additions. The nomination values it as a rare surviving early commercial building whose changes can be traced through historic photographs, with 1870s features still visible at street level.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900- (specific dates 1870's; 1920's)","architect_builder":"M. Madden (builder, 1870s); architect for the 1920s remodeling unknown","architectural_style":"English Revival / Arts and Crafts period revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied; used as a hospital wing and offices, with the interior remodeled since 1967 and the exterior retaining a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.426707-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/83001225.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001225/b0d2de7b0c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001225/b0d2de7b0c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Oscarmostofi","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Tavern_Sacramento_California_By_Oscar_Mostofi.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscarmostofi</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:Old_Tavern_Sacramento_California_By_Oscar_Mostofi.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860642","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tavern_(Sacramento,_California)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14683562"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/sacramento-county/old-tavern-83001225/"}