Constructed circa 1860 as the Constitution Saloon, this brick and stone building was one of the oldest permanent buildings in Jackson. First owned by William A. Phoenix, the first sheriff of Amador County, it survived the devastating fire of ’62 that consumed much of Jackson. In December 1863, Rogers and Raffo reopened the saloon, and it continued operating as the Constitution Saloon through at least 1913. The Amador Ledger called it “the social club and political rendezvous of the men who shaped political life of the county.” The Woman’s Club of Jackson, organized in 1910, bought the building in 1917 with help from Amador mining mogul William F. Detert. In the 1920’s, the club opened the county’s first free public library there and used the building as its meeting hall through 1998. Native Sons of the Golden West, Excelsior Parlor #31, acquired the building in December 1998 and revived it as a social hall for Native Sons.