Built circa 1850 as two separate buildings, this property housed many Gold Rush-era businesses, including hardware and furniture stores. It survived five nineteenth-century fires, including an 1897 conflagration that destroyed all but the brick buildings on this side of the street. In the 1870s, Alessandro A. Fransioli, also known as Alexander Francis, purchased the property and rented it out until his death in 1902, when his sons took over his businesses in town. Sometime in the early twentieth century, Sartor Francis moved the family butcher shop here. After his death, the buildings were sold in 1952 to Growlersburg Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9241, which had been established on April 12, 1947 after World War Two veterans returned to the divide. It has since been home to combat veterans of every American foreign conflict from the Spanish American War to the present, and its ballroom and front were restored by the Native Sons of the Golden West, Georgetown Parlor 91, whose mission is to perpetuate the memories of the days of '49 and preserve and celebrate the history of California.