The Thayer, located at 1228 N Street is a true mixed use building right across the street from Capitol Park. It is sandwiched between the old Mirador Hotel on the corner of 13th Street and the California Department of Agriculture Building on the corner of 12th Street.
The Thayer has a mix of offices and residential apartments and is a real architectural gem!
Inside, the basement is subdivided into storage for offices and residents but if you look closely you can see these were once horse stalls. The back part of the basement still has a ramp where the horses came and went from the basement! Maybe the one of the ffirst downtown residential building with secured parking!
I lived on the second floor of The Thayer from 1989 - 1992 and it was a perfect place to live Downtown. My son was a toddler and we had the run of Capitol Park and came to know the park very well. We became huge fans of the Koi Pond, Cactus Garden and the Native American grinding Stone, right across from the Thayer in the park.
The sound of the bells from Westminster Church on 13th Street and even the light rail trains making the turn on 12th onto O Street were soothing urban noises that became part of the music of our downtown life.
Happy Birthday and walk by and have a look at this great Sacramento building, right in the heart of The Big Tomato!
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