Structures and Monuments in Which California Stone was Used

Structures and Monuments in Which
California Stone was Used

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Finished Product from California Stone in California (Continued)

Murphys, Calaveras County, California – Chimneys and Fireplaces (From The Structural and Industrial Materials of California, Bulletin No. 38, California, State Mining Bureau, San Francisco, California, 1906.)

Talc from Ed. Black's Claim, located 2 ½ miles west of Murphys, was used locally in building chimneys and fireplaces circa 1904.
Murphys, Calaveras County, California - Jones Apothecary Shop (From Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49 - Sierran Gold Belt: The Mother Lode Country, Bulletin 141, Olaf P. Jenkins, Chief, California Division of Mines, San Francisco, California, 1949. Used with permission, California Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey.)

The Jones Apothecary shop (Fig. 72) has a "...brick front and limestone rubble walls...."

Fig. 72. Jones Apothecary Shop, Murphys, DMBS Cal-H11.
Murphys, Calaveras County, California - Limestone Rubble-Lime Mortar Building (From Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49 - Sierran Gold Belt: The Mother Lode Country, Bulletin 141, Olaf P. Jenkins, Chief, California Division of Mines, San Francisco, California, 1949. Used with permission, California Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey.)

"...Across the (from the Mitchler Hotel) is a typical Mother Lode brick-fronted, limestone rubble-lime mortar walled building which was in 1851 a miner's supply store and bakery...."
Murphys, Calaveras County, California - Mitchler Hotel (From Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49 - Sierran Gold Belt: The Mother Lode Country, Bulletin 141, Olaf P. Jenkins, Chief, California Division of Mines, San Francisco, California, 1949. Used with permission, California Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey.)

"Murphys, also located on Highway 4 to the northeast of Douglas Flat, is almost unique in preserving the atmosphere of a substantial Mother Lode town of the 'fifties (Fig. 69). Permanent buildings are of brick or quarried limestone. The Mitchler Hotel at Murphys (Fig. 70), made of rough quarried limestone chunks set in lime mortar, was built in 1855 by J. C. Sperry and J. Perry...."

Fig. 69. Street view, Murphy’s HABS 1211.

Fig. 70. Mitchler Hotel, Murphys, HABS 1109-4.

Mitchler Hotel, Murphys, now called Murphy's Hotel
(Photo taken in 1998)
Murphys, Calaveras County, California - P. Travers Building (From Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49 - Sierran Gold Belt: The Mother Lode Country, Bulletin 141, Olaf P. Jenkins, Chief, California Division of Mines, San Francisco, California, 1949. Used with permission, California Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey.)

"...The P. Travers building made of heavy limestone rubble and erected in 1856, is now (circa 1948) Morley's Garage. It housed a store and the Wells Fargo Office...."
Murphys, Calaveras County, California - Victorene Compere's Store (From Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49 - Sierran Gold Belt: The Mother Lode Country, Bulletin 141, Olaf P. Jenkins, Chief, California Division of Mines, San Francisco, California, 1949. Used with permission, California Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey.)

Victorene Compere's Store (Fig. 73) has "...facing blocks of dark rhyolite tuff and walls of limestone rubble and now (circa 1948) remodeled into an attractive private residence...."

Fig. 73. Victorene Compere’s store, Murphys, HABS 1108-2.

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