The first telephone in Jackson was probably in this building in the late 1870's when it was the Dispatch office. Publisher Penry and Nickerson of Sutter Creek started the first phone company. This competes with the Masonic Hall as being (at least partly) the earliest brick building, arising in March-April 1854, and home to a French firm, Fixary & Sompayrac. (Monsieur, Sompayrac's young wife lies buried on the Museum gournds.) Some of this building probably dates from 1854, more from after the 1862 fire, and second floors in the 1890's.

This may be the only two-story building in the city with one story brick, the other wood. One of the titan's of the wine industry, Ernesto Galo was born in this building in 1909. Merchant Richard Lory built the first story in 1878, and added the second a year later. The town's historic Astor House once stood here in the early 1850's. First Methodist minister Issac Fish preached sermons here before the first church was finished in 1863.

Central Hotel Building, 1878.

The Webb Building. In the 1890's Richard Webb purchased air rights over the existing brick Peek and Newman livery. Thus three-fourths of the building dates from 1898. This was old garage and livery back to 1850's. Bank interior south wall probably from 1856 livery, north wall from 1860 livery expansion. Was called Magnolia House, Western Exchange in 1850's. For about sixty years the former Amador Ledger was housed in the part where the community college district office is now.