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FIG. 88. J. Banque store, San Andreas, DMBS Cal-H25. 



SAN ANDREAS 



The main street of San Andreas displays several buildings dating 

 from the 'fifties. Among these are the I. 0. 0. F. Hall made of brick and 

 erected in 1856 (Fig. 86), the Corcoran and Sullivan building con- 

 structed of dressed granite blocks in 1855 (Fig. 87), and the J. Banque 

 Store on Court Street with granitic walls and a brick front built in 1851 

 (Fig. 88) and said to be the oldest brick building in this section of the 

 Mother Lode district. The adobe brick buildings adjoining the Banque 

 Store date from the early 'seventies. The Friedburger building, otherwise 

 known as the Calaveras Bar, has now been torn down but an earlier 

 photograph is reproduced here (Fig. 89) to illustrate a common archi- 

 tectural technique of applying 1 a smooth stucco outside over the stone 

 walls (here of flat Calaveras schist rubble laid in lime mortar) and groov- 

 ing the stucco to simulate stone construction blocks. An excellent museum 

 and public library occupies the former Krim Hotel building which was 

 built in 1852 of dressed pieces of local gneissic granite and Calaveras 

 schist. 



MOKELUMNE HILL 



The traveler arriving in Mokelumne Hill is immediately struck by 

 the observation that most of the buildings are made of well finished stone 

 blocks. These are of light brown rhyolite tuff. The I. 0. 0. F. Hall (Fig. 

 90) was originally a two story building erected in 1854 by the Adams 

 Express Company. The third story was raised in 1861 by the I. 0. 0. F. 

 thus making it the first three story building in the Mother Lode. This 

 splendid building, the Mater building erected 1854 (Fig. 91) , the burned- 

 out printing shop (Fig. 92) and the adjoining garage (Fig. 93) all show 

 the beautifully tooled rhyolite tuft 3 block construction. The famed Leger 

 Hotel, reminiscent of the style of the 'fifties (compare with Figs. 4, 58, 

 110), built of brick and rhyolitic tuff with wooden balconies adjoins the 

 old courthouse which is now part of the hotel (Fig. 94). The exquisite 

 Congregational Church built in 1856 of wood is supported by pillars of 

 fitted rhyolite tuff blocks. The hill which rises west of town was the source 

 of the rhyolite tuff which has here a long surface outcrop in which can be 

 seen the quarry pits opened in the 1850 's (Fig. 95). 



Two locally famous structures, the Hemmighofen and Suesdorff 

 brewery made of rhyolite tuff, and the Pellaton Store made of adobe 

 bricks are no longer in existence. 



Fio. 89. Friedburger Buildin 



er standing) San Andreas, HABS 1478. 



