Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE), Office Tower, Central Sacramento, Sacramento, CA (1925-1926)

AKA: Elks Tower, Central Sacramento, Sacramento, CA

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings

Designers: Starks and Flanders, Architects (firm); Edward Francis Flanders (architect); Leonard Frank Starks (architect)

Dates: constructed 1925-1926

14 stories

click to open gallery Exterior view of the Elks Tower, Sacramento, 2007; from Wikimedia Commons, photo by Taneli Mielikinen
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921 11th Street
Central Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 95814

Overview

Designed by Sacramento architectural firm of Starks and Flanders, the Elks Tower usurped the title of Sacramento's tallest building at 226 feet, from the California-Western States Life Insurance Company Building (216 feet), completed in 1925. The Elks skyscraper opened on 06/14/1926, during a 1920s building boom in Downtown Sacramento.

Building History

The commission for this insurance company building would have been given to Leonard F. Starks (1891-1986) before his partnership with Edward Flanders in 1925, and may have entered Starks's previous office of Hemmings and Starks which operated from 1923 until 1924.

PCAD id: 20392

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