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The Belvedere Preservation Alliance is a non-profit focused on advocating for the preservation, restoration and adaptive reuse of Roseville’s historical buildings, properties and landmarks.

05/02/2026

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Anyone interested in being donated this historic building (to relocate it) will only be eligible to submit their proposal if they attend the 5/20, 10am Job Walk at 315 Church Street.

Let’s find our 1908 Railroad Hospital a new home!

10/31/2025

Click this link:

https://win.newmode.net/belvederepreservationalliance/pleaseadoptahistoricpreservationprogramforroseville

to be directed to a pre-made email in support of Roseville finally adopting a historic preservation program! All you need to do is fill in your name etc, and send! Let’s take the first step to ensure the future of our historic areas!

10/25/2025

It’s time to take action! 📣

Our petition for Roseville to finally adopt a historic preservation program was rejected by our City Council. Now we need everyone to email them to show support for our historic areas! 📩

We’ve made it easy by creating a link (below) to a premade email, that urges our Council Council to take the first step towards ensuring the future of our historic areas! 🏘️ Feel free to personalize the subject line and email as you like, and share the link with friends and family! 👏 *Please ignore the option to donate, as that donation does not go toward our efforts*

The link:
https://win.newmode.net/belvederepreservationalliance/pleaseadoptahistoricpreservationprogramforroseville

Together, we can make change happen! 💖 Thank you, again, for all of your support!

08/21/2025

This stunning structure on Lincoln Street is the Barker Hotel Annex! The original wood frame annex perished in a fire in February of 1924. 🔥 This fire-proof, brick building was built in its place later that same year. 🧱 Twice the size of the original, with 25 hotel rooms above and 3 store fronts below, it was built by Sacramento’s Charles Maberry & L.G. Barton. Construction was finished in late August of 1924 and the annex originally housed a “moving picture theater” called The Strand 🎬 (by March of 1926 it was the Lyric Theater). The theater operated alongside various merchants in its early years, including The Roseville Emporium and Quality Bakery. In 1929, a fortune teller was advertising their services there! 🔮

👉 Swipe through to see a 1915 Sanborn Fire Map (showing the original building) compared to the a 1925 Sanborn Fire Map, articles about the fire and new build, and plenty of ads for the early businesses it housed!

Check out the petition we recently sent to our City Council for Roseville to FINALLY adopt a historic preservation program! We included a list of over 200 historic building owners who've signed this petition and a statement from someone with nearly 20 years of experience who is offering to draft our program for FREE: https://savehistoricroseville.org/the-petition

06/15/2025

Check out this 1914 photo of the Roseville Garage building on Lincoln Street! ✨🧱 The one story, wood-frame building to the right of the building was lost in a 1924 fire, but this pretty building looks just the same as it did the year after it was built! 💖👏

See the previous post to learn more about this building👉

Check out the petition we recently sent to our City Council for Roseville to FINALLY adopt a historic preservation program! We included a list of over 200 historic building owners who've signed this petition and a statement from someone with nearly 20 years of experience who is offering to draft our program for FREE: https://savehistoricroseville.org/the-petition

06/08/2025

Mr. A Wright built this attractive Lincoln Street building in 1913! ✨ Originally, it was the Roseville Garage (Roseville’s oldest garage firm), leased and operated by F. E. Lindell & Son.

In 1922, the Goodman Bros.’ Brunswick Billiard moved into the space. 🎱 The next year, Gus Katseles shoe repair business set up shop in part of the building as well, and a taxi stand called “City Taxi” was operating just outside. This building survived a fire in 1924, which took out the smaller wood-frame structure beside it. 🔥 In 1927, the “Rose Taxi” stand was introduced to the public as a new business outside the building. The driver was armless due to a railroad accident, but the Press-Tribune assured the public that he had become “expertly proficient in driving”. 🚖 Sometime between 1927 and 1929, Brunswick Billiard closed, and “Brunswick Rooming House” was reopened by a Mrs. Cole. In 1931, Brunswick Athletic Club 💪🏻opened at the address and, a year later, the Green and White Lunch Counter opened there. 🍽️ Jim’s Coffee Shop was there in 1934 and in 1938 it housed the Roseville Bowling Alley (“ladies welcome”). 🎳 In 1939, Sam Aronson opened a used car salesroom in the building.

👉 Swipe through to see the 1915 (top) and 1925 Sanborn Fire Map, articles about the building’s construction and ads for the many businesses that were operated there!

Check out the petition we recently sent to our City Council for Roseville to FINALLY adopt a historic preservation program! We included a list of over 200 historic building owners who've signed this petition and a statement from someone with nearly 20 years of experience who is offering to draft our program for FREE: https://savehistoricroseville.org/the-petition

05/01/2025

I spotted this 1939 WPA stamped curb on Marilyn Ave! 😍✨ The WPA was a New Deal Program established to provide employment and stimulate the economy during the Great Depression. 💵 The WPA existed from 1935-1943 and by 1939 was facing budget cuts. That may be why workers were protesting longer unpaid hours that year! Have you seen WPA stamped curbs in your Roseville neighborhood? 🏘️

👉 Swipe through to see a couple of articles from that year about the WPA curb and gutter project in the Maciel Tract (Folsom Road Neighborhood)!

Check out the petition we recently sent to our City Council for Roseville to FINALLY adopt a historic preservation program! We included a list of over 200 historic building owners who've signed this petition and a statement from someone with nearly 20 years of experience who is offering to draft our program for FREE: https://savehistoricroseville.org/the-petition

03/17/2025

The beautiful brick John H Herring building was built in 1925 after his previously existing one-story wood-frame structure was destroyed by a fire there in November of 1924! 🔥🧱

Contractors Wilke & Tropper built this fine, much more fire-proof building for Mr. Herring, which was quickly occupied by the New Mint Cafe, Log Cabin Bakery, and Blue Lantern Billiards Hall (with conjoined barber shop). ☕️🥖🎱 The 2nd floor of the building was used for apartments and a real estate office for J H Herring. At the time of his death in 1943, Mr. Herring was known to have been in business in Roseville longer than anyone else (having come to Roseville 50 years prior)! This fantastic Lincoln Street building is now home to Four Score Coffee House 😍👏 If you haven’t checked them out, I highly recommend grabbing a coffee there soon! We’re so lucky to have such a great community space in this historic location! 💖

👉 Swipe through to see a 1925 Sanborn Fire Map, read about the 1924 fire, the building’s construction, hear about the first businesses in the building and see John’s obituary!

Check out the petition we recently sent to our City Council for Roseville to FINALLY adopt a historic preservation program! We included a list of over 200 historic building owners who've signed this petition and a statement from someone with nearly 20 years of experience who is offering to draft our program for FREE: https://savehistoricroseville.org/the-petition

02/04/2025

This beautiful 1915 building housed Roseville’s FIRST FUNERAL PARLOR 😍.

Completed for Henry Howard Stone of “Harmer & Stone Undertaking Parlors,” the concrete work was done by the Busby boys and the woodwork by Henry Wortell. 👏 The rock-faced or “rusticated” concrete blocks on this building were widely used in construction during the first quarter of the 20th century. They would have been made on site, one at a time, using a machine like the one pictured on the 4th image of this post. 🧱

Not long after its completion, Guy West purchased Mr. Stone’s interest in the business and it became West-Harmer Undertaking Parlors. Guy and Alice West would move into the rear of the building and Guy became the sole proprietor of the church street parlor in 1916. In 1918, during the Spanish Influenza, an overworked Mr. West fell ill with the flu. According to the local news, it was the “largest list of dead in any like period of time in the history of the city” 🙏.

The Wests relocated their business in May of 1920, and by June, The Tribune was operating there. 📰 In 1921, a room in the building was being rented out to the Roseville Shoe Repair Shop and then Lamanna Bros Shoe Repair. 👞 In 1923, the Brills purchased The Register and merged it with The Tribune, creating the Register-Tribune. The Register-Tribune merged with The Press in 1942 and moved to Vernon Street. In 2001, the building was lovingly restored by Donald D. Smith and Breene Kerr! 👏 This fantastic storefront still has its original (and extremely rare) stamped tin ceiling! ✨

👉 swipe through to see a 1915 map, articles about the new building and undertaking business, a photo of a decorative concrete block machine, historic ads for the businesses there, and an article about the 2001 restoration! (You’ll need to zoom in to read)

Check out the petition we recently sent to our City Council for Roseville to FINALLY adopt a historic preservation program! We included a list of over 200 historic building owners who've signed this petition and a statement from someone with nearly 20 years of experience who is offering to draft our program for FREE: https://savehistoricroseville.org/the-petition

01/29/2025

Part 3!:

A lot has happened above and beneath the Sierra Vista Bridge since 1929. ✨ Here are a few newspaper highlights! :
1. A driver, disoriented by the fog, awaits a tow truck after driving onto and getting stuck on the railroad tracks beneath the bridge in 1960. 🛤️
2. In 1931, during The Great Depression, a traveling family with 4 small children find overnight shelter beneath the bridge before having a meal (kindly on the house) at a local restaurant.
3. A 1940 description of seeing the harvest moon above the bridge. 🌾🌕
4. Photos of a 1957 car crash on the bridge.
5. A car driving over the bridge in 1964.
6. A 1967 parade crossing the bridge.
7. A grass fire is put out under the bridge in 1975. 8. In 1986, a California poppy is photographed growing through a crack in the bridge. 🌷

Check out the petition we recently sent to our City Council for Roseville to FINALLY adopt a historic preservation program! We included a list of over 200 historic building owners who've signed this petition and a statement from someone with nearly 20 years of experience who is offering to draft our program for FREE: https://savehistoricroseville.org/the-petition

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