Abstract
This project determines eligibility and establishes a historic context for the nomination of the Sacramento Turn Verein to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic property, with accompanying nomination forms. Newspaper articles and advertisements, maps, city records and directories, photographs, contemporary works on historic preservation, urban history, German immigration, and Sacramento urban development. The Sacramento Turn Verein is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria A and C. Its two historic contexts are as the meeting location of German-American Turner members looking to practice and maintain German cultural traditions and as an exceptional example of Classical Revival style architecture built by locally renowned architecture firm, Dean & Dean with decorative terra cotta elements by Gladding, McBean.