SODERER & MARSHALL BUILDING.

(AKA: TEMPLE BUILDING, COLUMBIA CANDY KITCHEN, KITCHEN)

1857


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The South and North Buildings of the Candy Kitchen - 2007

1851 Benjamin Alverson and John D. Patterson build a frame building and run the Patterson House saloon. (South part of this building is where the carpentry shop now stands).

1853 February - Heslep, Yaney & Co own the lot. They sell to James A. Jackson.

1854 After the July fire, they rebuild of wood. George H. Rogers runs the Union Exchange restaurant.

1855 September - Jackson sells the lot to Edward Coleman.

1855 November - William A. Cory succeeds Rogers and changes the name to the Magnolia Restaurant.

1856 April - Coleman sells to Soderer and Marshall for $3600.

1857 After the August fire, Soderer and Marshall, build a 1 story brick structure. "Messrs. Solter(Soderer), Marshall, Edgar Mills and Dr. McChesney will build a splendid one story fire-proof block with iron front, from Hildebrand's to the corner of Fulton Street." (from the Sacramento Daily Union Sept. 4, 1857)

1859 Barker and Cousins (black barbers) open a Shaving Emporium.

1860 June - Cohen and Levinsons' Tobacco and Fruit store open.

1866 July - F. D. F. Temple buys the building and opens a butcher shop.

1874 The building sells to William Shine for $200.

1879 December - Horace Butler moves his Union Restaurant into the building and renames it the New York Restaurant.

1881 Butler leaves.

1887 February - Tonsorial artist Green moves his Elite Tonsorial Shaving Parlor into the building.

1891 September - Shine sells to Wm Siebert.

1922 April - Siebert's widow sold to Mrs. Naegele.


MILLS-McCHESNEY.

(AKA: COLUMBIA CANDY KITCHEN, KITCHEN)

1857


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Note the awning signs on McChesney building - c1863


1851 Peter Ferguson, "the first person to open a saloon in the southern mines", opens a liquor store.

1853 August - Ferguson sells to H. K. White and J. Diamond who open White's Billiard Saloon.

1854 Diamond sells to White. After the fire, rebuilds a wood frame building. White and Harvey run a saloon.

1856 White sells to J. J. McChesney and Niles Mills.

1857 Niles Mills sells to Edgar Mills.

1857 After the August fire, they build of brick and split the building into 2 stores. Mills sells to McChesney.



SOUTH BUILDING



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South Building - 2007


1859 July - Drs. Baldwin and Dickinson operate as druggists and apothecaries.

1859 August - Baldwin is alone.

1864 December - McChesney sell the store to Dr. D. M. Baldwin.

1865 April 22 - A generic advertisement for Bitters is placed in the Tuolumne Courier with the by-line, "For sale at Dr. Baldwin's Drug Store, in Columbia."

1867 August - Baldwin sells to R. W. Hathaway who has a drugstore. Later, Dr. Graham has an office in the drugstore and then Dr. Fine takes over from Graham.

1869 Dr. G.T. Van Vleck succeeds Dr. Fine.

1874 Hathaway sells to Wm. Shine.



NORTH BUILDING



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North Building - 2007

1861 Hutchinson and Gilman open a variety store and the first soda fountain in Columbia.

1861 October - they become the telegraph operators.

1864 December - the Elias brothers buy the building and run a variety store and telegraph.

1867 March - Phil Elias sells to Ed Elias.

1873 Elias also has the post office until 1877.

1874 Elias adds a drugstore. He sells the building to Wm. Shine, who now owns the entire structure, Elias remains on the premises.

1876 By this time, Elias tears down the wall and re-unites the building into one large store.

1880 Elias moves out.

1880 March - Louis Levy leases the building and runs a variety store and post office until 1881.

1881 Levy moves out.

1881 September - Wm. Shine sells the south lot to Wm. Siebert.

1891 September - Shine sells the north lot to Siebert.

1893 In March - Matthew Brady, Sr. leases the building for a grocery store and post office. After his death, his sons continue the store and post office until 1899.

1903 Will McClarren's men's clothing store is in the building then Dr W. L. Stephens takes over the building.

c1920s One of these buildings is the Kearny Saloon.

1922 Mrs. Cody sells to Mrs. Naegele this doesn't make sense.

1930s Mr. Miner has a grocery store in the building, he also owns the cabins in the back lot.

1948 The state purchases from Nellie Cody et al for $8500.

1950s Has been the Red and White grocery and Eastlack's, and Harthorn and Raney concession.

c1960 Some part of this building was Mellor's candy store. Happy and Dale Heric took over operation.

1962 The building was vacant.

c1971 that business moved to the Heyneman building (Brown's Coffee Saloon).

1972-74 Restored by the Nelson family for the Columbia Candy Kitchen.




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