Wells Fargo Building
The Wells Fargo & Co. Building is located on the south side of the
Mother Lode Highway. This handsome, two-story structure was built with
semi-dressed native stone and features deep-set, arched doorways in both
the lower and upper stories. The peaked, wooden roof once common
throughout the Gold Country is still intact, unlike many of its
contemporaries. At one time an elaborate balcony stretched across the
face of the building; it has long since disappeared. Besides the Wells
Fargo & Co. office, the building once housed the Phelps Store. At the
time of this writing, efforts were underway to restore the old “Stone
House.”