Historic Sites and Points of Interest in Placer County
Woodframe buildings in this block of Commercial Street were destroyed by the 1855 fire and replaced with brick buildings. This building Jake Newman’s Clothing Emporium. For a while E. C. Snowden had his drug store and residence here before he moved his store to the corner lot.
Source: A Walking Tour of Historic Old Town Auburn, published in 2013 by the City of Auburn.