Shingle Springs
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.”
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