Ebner's Hotel

Charles and Frank Ebner built this themselves in 1856, thirty-six rooms, and put a cupola on it high enough to be seen from the water. Rivermen coming up from the delta used it to know they had arrived. Sutter drank in the brothers' saloon and lodged upstairs. By 1863 they had leased the hotel out to concentrate on the liquor trade Charles ran from the basement, which tells you which business they thought had a future. What stands at the address now is a reconstruction, and nothing explains that.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sacramento — steps away
  The Gold Rush river port that became the state capital, and jacked itself ten feet into the air to stop drowning.

More markers nearby

• Lady Adams Building — steps away
• What Cheer House — steps away
• Adams and Company Building — steps away
• Site of Orleans Hotel — steps away