Amador City, Amador County

The Chichizola Building

The western half of the building was completed in November of 1877. The other half was added prior to 1900. The Chichizola family had "just about everything imaginable" in their general store. It was later converted into a feed barn owned and run by the Antonini family.

The Imperial Hotel

The Imperial Hotel was originally meant to be a mercantile store. When the fire of 1878 destroyed a wooden hotel on the site, B. Sanguinetti decided to build a brick store on the lot. At some point during the construction he changed his plans and in 1879 an impressive, two-story brick hotel was finished. The following year a two-story frame addition was added to the rear of the building, which was removed years later. The hotel was first known as the "Italian Hotel", becoming the Imperial at some later date.

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The Firehouse and Town Hall

Prior to the Firehouse and Town Hall which was built in the early 1900's, there was a old livery stable.

The Arastra

This arasta was found in El Dorado County, dismantled, and reassembled here in Amador City in the 1960's

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Information, photographs courtesy of the Amador County Archives, The Historical Marker Database, and the Chronicling America Database