Old Tavern, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Sacramento County, California

The Old Tavern is a commercial building in Tudor Revival style in downtown Sacramento, standing on the same site since the 1840s. Its structure features steep pitched roofs, decorative half-timbering, and multi-paned windows characteristic of the style added in the 1920s, while the core of the building comes from the original wooden structure.

John Sutter built the first structure on this site, likely a storehouse, after raising Sutter's Fort across the street. In the early 1850s Philip Scheld enlarged it into a two-story building and founded Scheld's Sacramento Brewery. Later uses ranged from a speakeasy to apartments and a data-processing center, and the building was renovated in the mid-to-late 1980s.

The building's name comes from its years as a tavern and stagecoach stop on the road into downtown Sacramento. Since the mid-1980s the original tavern section has housed an Italian restaurant, while other parts of the structure were converted to medical offices.

The Old Tavern stands in downtown Sacramento, across the street from Sutter's Fort. The original tavern section now houses an Italian restaurant, while medical offices occupy other parts of the building, so the historic core is best seen from the street or while dining. The upper floors are not open to casual visitors.

At least one historian agrees with the rumor that a brothel operated upstairs in the 19th century, serving Sacramento pioneers. The claim is unverified, but it points to a period when the building drew stagecoach travelers heading downtown.