by historydemo | Jan 25, 2018 | Side Street Tour
← 1500 Railroad Avenue 1345 Railroad Avenue → This simple frame false front building on Railroad Avenue, opposite the Southern Pacific Depot, appears little altered by time, giving a glimpse of how many of the 19th and early 20th century false front...
by historydemo | Jan 25, 2018 | Side Street Tour
← 1478 Railroad Avenue Scout Hall, Railroad Avenue → The first depot in St. Helena was that of the Napa Valley Railroad arriving in the town in 1868. It was located at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Hunt Avenue and it served both passenger and freight...
by historydemo | Jan 25, 2018 | Side Street Tour
← 1468 Railroad Avenue 1500 Railroad Avenue → Johnson’s Depot Saloon was probably built about the same time as the Southern Pacific Depot, circa 1868. Its stone and frame construction is one of the few examples remaining in the Napa Valley. All of...
by historydemo | Jan 25, 2018 | Side Street Tour
← 1104 Adams Street 1478 Railroad Avenue → In 1877, at the height of the early boom times for the California wine industry, pioneering Sherry-maker John Ramos built his Sherry Factory. Ramos was an immigrant from Madeira, Portugal, where phylloxera (a plant...
by historydemo | Jan 25, 2018 | Side Street Tour
1468 Railroad Avenue → The Pritchard Building, built in 1906, was constructed, as were most of the stone buildings along Railroad Avenue, as a utilitarian warehouse convenient to the Railroad Depot. It stored coal for the railroad and also served as a feed mill....
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