Adams and Company Building
Adams and Company Building is a historic brick-and-granite building in Sacramento, California associated with early communications, finance, and transportation services. The building is designated California Historical Landmark No. 607 and stands at 1014 2nd Street in Old Sacramento State Historic Park. Adams and Company ceased operations after its banker, Page, Bacon & Company, failed in 1855.
The Adams and Company Building has been used for:
- Adams and Company's express and banking house, 1853–1855.
- Alta Telegraph Company.
- California State Telegraph Company.
- Pacific Express Company, founded on March 1, 1855, by former Adams and Company employees; closed in 1857.
- California Stage Company.
- Sacramento City Bank, 1850, John M. Rhodes, with a Shasta branch; failed February 12, 1857.
- Wells Fargo & Co. offices in the 1850s.
- Central Overland office in 1861.
- State Telephone Company.
- Western Union.
- Old Sac Leather Works, founded in 1983.