Rocklin in Placer County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
Barudoni Building
Photographed by Kevin W., January 29, 2025
1. Barudoni Building Marker
Inscription.
Barudoni Building. . The Barudoni Building is at 5250 Front Street. It is the granite building across from the Old Saint Mary's Chapel. Meat broker Joseph Barudoni built it in 1905 as a meat market with an office for Doctor Woodbridge on the second floor. In May 1914 fire spread north and south along Front Street from Porter's Saloon and consumed all of the buildings northward to Rocklin Road. But the Barudoni Building's granite walls blocked the fire's southward progress. That fire ended Front Street's time as a center of Rocklin's commercial activity. The flattened buildings were never rebuilt. Joseph Barudoni died six months after the fire and his family eventually sold the building. In 1954 a successor owner extracted granite blocks from the upper walls to construct a gas station in Ophir. The station has been demolished, but the granite blocks are strewn about the Ophir landscape nearby. Subsequent Barudoni Building owners filled the gaps with wooden framing. Notice the remnants of the granite steps on the exterior of the north wall. They led to Doctor Woodbridge's office. In the mid twentieth century, the Barudoni Building was a feed store and later an antique shop, aawa recording studio and a wine tasting business.
The Barudoni Building is at 5250 Front Street. It is the granite building across from the Old
Saint Mary's Chapel. Meat broker Joseph Barudoni built it in 1905 as a meat market with an
office for Doctor Woodbridge on the second floor. In May 1914 fire spread north and south
along Front Street from Porter's Saloon and consumed all of the buildings northward
to Rocklin Road. But the Barudoni Building's granite walls blocked the fire's southward
progress. That fire ended Front Street's time as a center of Rocklin's commercial activity.
The flattened buildings were never rebuilt. Joseph Barudoni died six months after the fire and
his family eventually sold the building. In 1954 a successor owner extracted granite blocks
from the upper walls to construct a gas station in Ophir. The station has been demolished, but
the granite blocks are strewn about the Ophir landscape nearby. Subsequent Barudoni Building
owners filled the gaps with wooden framing. Notice the remnants of the granite steps on
the exterior of the north wall. They led to Doctor Woodbridge's office. In the mid twentieth
century, the Barudoni Building was a feed store and later an antique shop, aawa recording studio and
a wine tasting business.
Erected 2014 by the Chapman family, the City of Rocklin and the Rocklin Historical
Location. 38° 47.463′ N, 121° 14.299′ W. Marker is in Rocklin, California, in Placer County. It is on Front Street just south of Rocklin Road. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 5251 Front Street, Rocklin CA 95677, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in California’s Sacramento Metro, in the Sierra Nevada, and in the Lake Tahoe Basin. It is also in the American Mountain West. Globally, it is in North America, on the Ring of Fire, in the Pacific Rim, in the Western Hemisphere, in the Western World, and in the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain and also Mexicos Alta California.
2. Rocklin's Front Street Business District and Barudoni Building Markers
Photographed by Kevin W., January 29, 2025
3. Barudoni Building
Credits. This page was last revised on January 2, 2026. It was originally submitted on January 2, 2026, by Kevin W. of Stafford, Virginia. This page has been viewed 117 times since then. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on January 2, 2026, by Kevin W. of Stafford, Virginia.
