1908, A Bungalow is Born

    Though the house at 2531 Q Street is dated 1910 in public documents, there is evidence that the home was built, or at least in the process of being built, by 1908. 

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The first resident at 2531 Q Street was Carl G Snow, or Charles Gardiner Snow, as I discovered through my research, utilizing resources available at my local Sacramento City Libray and the California Digital Newspaper Collection.               
  
   The first clue was located in the Sacramento Union, Volume 118, Number 20, 14 September 1909- on page 12. "Fifty feet of garden hose was stolen from the home of C.G. Snow at 2531 Q Street Sunday."









​First of all, LOL, because to this day, we can't leave anything out in the yard without the possibility of it being stolen. Through the years, we've had strollers, bike trailers, garden supplies, Christmas decorations, you name it lifted from the very corner that C.G. Snow experienced this petty theft in 1909.

But more importantly, who was this C.G. Snow, and what was he doing living at 2531 Q Street in 1909, much less getting his hose stolen, when everything I'd seen before dates the home to 1910? I had to know. The library, and specifically the Sacramento Room's  collection of city directories, helped me with the next step of finding out this need-to-know information. I stole away one afternoon and stopped into the quiet oasis that is the Sacramento Room of the Central Library.   This began a journey into the lives of Sacramento residents from a century ago, and into the rich History of our little corner. 

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Advertisement for the sale of 2531 Q Street, as printed in The Sacramento Union, Tuesday September 9, 1913

 

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