[1][2] In 2009, the City of Sacramento designated The Trap a historical landmark, noting that the building is one of the oldest and last remaining structures associated with the Portuguese agricultural community that were among the first settlers of the Pocket-Greenhaven neighborhood.

In 1897, a notice in the Sacramento Bee announced a "grand opening" of "the Ingleside" under management by Carl Munger.

[7] In 1912, Tony Pimentel and his brother-in-law, Ernest Savoie, bought the business and operated it as the Ingleside Inn.

A photograph from around 1915 shows the business operating out of the current structure, with the Pimentel family farmhouse in the close background.

[12] In 1924, the current structure was moved a short distance south to its present location near the intersection at 6125 Riverside Boulevard.

[1][12] Throughout the Prohibition era (1920–1933),[8][9][10] the Ingleside Inn was a site of repeated arrests for continuing to sell liquor, but the business survived and established itself as an important cultural center in the Pocket-Greenhaven neighborhood, then a predominantly Portuguese immigrant community.