Lady Adams Building

The building is named after the ship. The Lady Adams brought the partners of a mercantile company round the Horn, and in 1852 they put up this brick and iron warehouse and gave it her name. That November a fire took roughly four fifths of Sacramento and this was the one building on the block that came through it. It has been a store, a bank and a rooming house since, and gone broke more than once. No state plaque marks it; the Clampers got there first.

What the plaque says

The Lady Adams Building Built in 1852 by the Lady Adams Mercantile Co.; named after the brig which brought the partners around the Horn. She has survived fires, flood and being lifted one story. She has served merchants, bankers and as a "rooming house," and has been flat busted more than once. The only survivor of the fire of Nov. 1852, she was named California Historical Landmark No. 603, on May 22, 1957 before we got around to it. E Clampus Vitus New Helvetia No. 5 Aug. 7, 1976

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

• Ebner's Hotel — steps away
• What Cheer House — steps away
• Site of Stage and Railroad (First) — steps away
• Adams and Company Building — steps away