The Elks Building in

Stockton, California Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County, California, San Joaquin County in the Central Valley (California), Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Stockton was founded by Carlos Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquir ...

is a 5-story U-shaped Chicago style/

Commercial Style Chicago's architecture is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as the Chicago School. Much of its early work is also known as Commercial Style. In the history of architecture, the first Chicago School was a school of architec ...

building built during 1906–08. Located at the corner of Sutter and Weber Streets, it has a copper cornice over those two streets. It is unusual, structurally, due to reports from the

1906 San Francisco earthquake At 05:12 Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''). High-intensity sha ...

about which types of buildings survived earthquake and fire. Ergo it is built from steel and concrete on the first two floors, although from there up has timber framing with two-foot thick brick masonry exterior walls. A March 1906 newspaper report had stated the building was expected to be built from brick masonry; a May 1906 newspaper report said its construction would change. with It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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Elks buildings Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in California Buildings and structures completed in 1906 Buildings and structures in Stockton, California National Register of Historic Places in San Joaquin County, California Chicago school architecture in California 1906 establishments in California {{SanJoaquinCountyCA-NRHP-stub