WELLS, FARGO & CO. EXPRESS OFFICE.

(static display)

Since 1857



© oac
c1934

1850 Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo, New York.

1857 August 25th (Tuesday) - FIre rages through town. Wells, Fargo Express office is burned. (Actual location not known for sure; assume the same as where the building is today)

1857 The American hotel burns in the August fire, Daegener rebuilds of wood; later in the year he builds a second frame building on the lot housing Sturzenegger and Newman's saloon. (Where current Wells Fargo building stands.)

1857 August 26th - Wells, Fargo & Co. were finishing a frame building on the old site that evening. (from Sacramento Daily Union)

1858 Daegener replaces his wood structures with brick. The two story building cost $4400, the one story $2375. The Wells, Fargo office moves into the two story building, with the Daegener family living upstairs. Hostie has a store in the other building.


© Wells, Fargo & Co.
Wells, Fargo & Co. Express Office - c1866

1872 Daegener sells to H. Sevening, who becomes the Wells, Fargo agent.

1884 Sevening sells to Tom Conlin. Conlin had the Wells, Fargo office, telegraph and a store in the building.

1914 Wells, Fargo closes their business, Conlin continues his other businesses in the building, and lives there with his sisters, Maggie and Julia.

1930s Tom Conlin dies, somehow the building is owned by the Wells, Fargo Company, who allow the Conlin sisters to stay there.

© Columbia State Historic Park.
1934

1945 Gift deeded to the state from Wells, Fargo as part of the ceremonies on July 15, 1945.

The building has been a static display used in many western theme films over the years. It has also become a "trade mark" for Columbia State Historic Park.


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