St. Helena has many historical buildings that are not in the Main Street Commercial District. Some of them have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Some are just old buildings with a unique history. This tour will help you explore St. Helena's side streets on both the west side and east side of Main Street. Discover our historic churches, hotels, social halls, saloons, schools, libraries, and post office. Learn about our historic railroad and warehouse district.

The William Tell Hotel is a unique example of 19th century false front commercial architecture in Napa County. It illustrates not only the false fronts of the 1870's, but also the uncommon stone double wall construction (without mortar) that predates the stone masonry of the 1880's and 1890's seen on St. Helena's Main Street. The original building appears to have been built in 3 sections with the earliest on the south side with the fieldstone double wall cellar. The northern section was the bar. Bernard Tosetti was the proprietor of the William Tell Saloon in 1876. Siding is shiplap as is the false front that conceals the fact that the southern section was an independent building to which the others were attached. In 1883, Battista Salmina built a 2-story addition with a dining room below and 20 sleeping rooms above. In the early 1900's, Walter Martini ran the hotel when it was a popular eating place. The original first floor has been modified and the façade has been stuccoed. The second story is still intact. A story of 1916 tells of a bar patron who fell out a second story window after a night of revelry. He was found in the morning by a passerby and had survived the incident. In 1946, the Keig family converted the building to a feed store, Napa Milling Co., and added the sheet metal extension to the rear. The building now houses several offices and businesses.

Grace Church was the first stone church built in the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California. The parish, organized in 1875, held services in a variety of buildings until Grace Church was built. Grace Episcopal Church had obtained the lot at Spring Street and Oak Avenue in 1878. A small wooden chapel served the congregation until the stone building was completed in 1883. It was originally just the stone structure, which is the sanctuary today. Of dressed stone, the one-story sanctuary carries a high-pitched roof with its interior beams exposed. A new hall was later added and in 1971, as part of a major renovation, and a sacristy and stone bell tower were built to adjoin the church. Of particular note are the church doors of hand-carved mahogany, executed by the nationally known sculptress Marian Brackenridge, in 1970. These doors are located behind the new bell tower as one enters the sanctuary. The churchyard is defined by a stone wall built in 1892. In 2002, a campaign began to replace the church hall with a new hall (the Newton Room) and classroom building and continued on to retrofit and enlarge the church itself. This was completed in 2005 and then rededicated. The walking labyrinth was completed in 2015.

The First Baptist Church on Spring Street appears to be a rather simple one-story gable-roofed church until the Italianate window moldings on the side walls are noticed. The church is what remains of the Chiles House built by Joseph Ballinger Chiles, who first came to California in 1841 with the Bidwell-Bartleson party, the first emigrant train to enter California by way of the Sierra Nevada. Chiles Valley (northeast of Napa Valley) is named for Joseph Chiles. J.B. Chiles built this house himself, so his children could attend school in St. Helena. The first floor double parlors and the hall formed the core of the Baptist Church. The semi-circular arched windows with their eared moldings are all that is visible of the original house. In later years it was New Harvest Community Church and then St. Helena Montessori School. At the present time this building is unoccupied.

Native Sons of the Golden West Parlor #53 has been active in St. Helena since 1885. Active in documenting and marking historic sites significant to Napa County and California, the Native Sons parlors of Napa County were responsible for the early efforts in preserving the Old Bale Mill, when it was deeded to them as a gift in 1923 from Mrs. W.W. Lyman, Sr. In 1941, the Mill was deeded to the County and is now operated by Napa County Regional Park and Open Spaces District. The Native Sons Hall was built in 1915 in the Italian Villa style becoming popular again at the turn of the century. Characteristic of the style are the two towers with their modillion brackets, low hip roofs, stucco façade and narrow semi-circular arched windows on the 2nd floor. Doorways also have the semi-circular arch. Note the shiplap siding of the two-story building; the stucco façade is original to the building. Two separate buildings were combined to create the Native Sons Hall. The front section that faces Spring Street has room for 92 people and a stairway leading up to the second floor. The back room, or pavilion, is the largest and, according to articles in the St. Helena Star in 1915, it was once an open-air skating rink and later a dance pavilion that were located elsewhere. It was moved to the Spring Street location and attached to the front edifice. This pavilion can hold 485 people. It is the largest hall in the town and is where so many of the fund-raising activities of the community have taken place in the building's 100+ years. According to the St. Helena Star on June 25, 1915, the hall was decked out in a splendor seldom seen in St. Helena for a grand opening ball. "The entire building was brilliantly illuminated and bouquets of flowers constituted simple decorations in the parlor."

This single story building was built circa 1905. It faces Oak Avenue but is set back on Money Way that runs parallel between Main Street and Oak Avenue. It has a shed roof and low parapets on all but the southwest elevation. The construction material is a native pitch-face stone that is coursed (laid in a path) or uncoursed (random). The original metal doors are outside on the north side. On the northwest facing door there are signatures and dates and on the other door are calculations where the operator used the door like a pad of paper. Apparently, animal feed was sold out of this stone building. It now serves as Alan's Photography and Custom Framing business.

The Cumberland Presbyterian Church of St. Helena was organized in 1863 on Spring Street. In 1873, the church was damaged by a fire set by an arsonist. The following year, the church was again set alight and burned to the ground and the congregation disbanded. St. Helena Presbyterian Church was organized May 30, 1874, by the Reverend James Mitchell, claiming the same site. Services were temporarily held at the Sharon Baptist Church on Church Street. The building we see today was completed and dedicated on January 30, 1876. It has been a landmark in the community since then when the steeple of the frame Gothic style church could be seen throughout the small town. Resting on a stone foundation, the frame church originally was rectangular with a gable roof and the entry and steeple to one corner. Shiplap siding sheaths the exterior, and narrow pointed arch windows extend along the side wall. Note the hood molds of the Gothic windows. In 1875, an 880-lb bell was installed in the steeple and the dedication took place on January 30, 1876. In 1885, Westminster Hall, the lecture hall, was built perpendicular to the rear gable end of the church by local builders. In 1954, the sanctuary was renovated and in 1970, repairs were made to the church steeple, but essentially the original design fabric has been retained. In 1985, an organ from Austria replaced the church's electric Hammond organ. It arrived disassembled in crates and it took 5 craftsmen, who accompanied the organ from Austria, to erect it in the sanctuary. The St. Helena Family Center (next door) was once the pastor's residence. The First Presbyterian Church has held Sunday services for over 140 years.

The present-day Catholic Church stands on the site of the first Church of St. Helena that was the remodeled home of a Mr. Sheehan. Augustus Tainter donated the lot to Archbishop Alemany, first Archbishop of San Francisco, in 1865. The old frame building was later moved off the site and used by several church denominations. The St. Helena Catholic Church was built during 1889 and 1890. It is designed in the classic style of English Medieval parish churches and constructed of native stone. The entry is directly beneath the Gothic bell tower and goes directly into the nave. Notice the fine tracery in the upper bell tower window. The interior of the nave has an open timbered roof in the Jacobean tradition. In 1945, fire swept the church. In rehabilitation, buttress additions were made to the north and south sides of the bell tower and on the north and south walls. Sacristies were added to the rear of the church and the bell tower roof was replaced with a battlement. The stained glass windows survived the fire. he church exemplifies the craftsmanship in stone of Napa County's 19th and 20th-century artisans. The Catholic Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 23, 1978.

This single-story utilitarian building was built circa 1920 and is owned by and located behind the Vasconi Pharmacy. It has a front-facing gable roof. The roof and walls are constructed of corrugated metal sheets. The front elevation has a vehicle opening on the left and a smaller doorway on the right. Each door is flanked by a window, which, like windows on other elevations, is unglazed and covered with wire screen. The building has a concrete floor and foundation. It was once a P.G. & E. warehouse. It appears to be substantially unaltered. It is currently being used as a storage facility.  

The Methodist Church is the oldest of the several 19th-century churches in St. Helena. Its simple lines exemplify the early Methodism brought to the Upper Napa Valley by the circuit Methodist minister, Rev. Asa White, in the 1850's. As the Rev. White covered a wide circuit on the North California coast, it fell to the Rev. Bryant and his trustees to build the church in 1867. F.E. Kellogg, the builder of the Bale mill, supplied the lumber. Several early pioneer names are associated with the building of the church: William McDonnell, Peter Teale, J.B. Risley, John Howell, the Rev. Bryant and others. In the functional style of early churches, it is a rectangular building with a gable roof. Siding is of shiplap. In 1873, the two-story bell tower with a steeple was added to the gable end and William Angwin was appointed the minister. By 1881, the construction debt was paid off. The steel ceiling and Gothic windows were installed in 1897. Charlotte Jones, one of the first female preachers in California, served from 1930 to 1941. In 1976, the Methodist Parsonage, that had been built at the same time adjacent to the church, was moved to 1944 Spring Street. A Sunday School and Day Care center once took its place. Now a Montessori School is located there.

St. Helena's first public one-room schoolhouse stood on the grounds now occupied by Las Alcobas luxury hotel (formerly St. Gothard's Inn/Grandview) north of town. In 1858, the school was moved to the corner of Kearney and Adams. The school was later moved to the corner of Oak and Adams. As enrollment grew, rooms were added until there were six, but they had leaky roofs and were poorly arranged. In 1901, the cornerstone of a new locally quarried stone school building was laid. It had a slate roof and was strongly built throughout. In 1920, four districts (St. Helena, Lodi, Vineland and Spring Valley) formed the St. Helena Unified Grammar School. In 1931, only 30 years after the school was built, the Grammar School was declared unsafe during earthquakes and it was torn down. The new St. Helena Elementary School was completed in 1932. The building is a rare example of the Spanish Colonial Revival style with low relief carvings highlighting the arches, columns, windows and cornices of the 1½ story building. The bell tower has a tiled hip roof and is paired with a first floor arched window. Decorative grills on the door, circular windows, and a bell tower add to the ornate quality of the style. A statue in memory of President William McKinley stands to the right of the entrance. He was assassinated in 1901. Money was raised by the citizens of St. Helena to honor the 25th president. For many years the school served Kindergarten through 6th grade. Since the Primary and Middle schools were built, the Elementary School now only serves 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades.

The St. Helena Library was begun privately as a subscription library by the townspeople in 1875. Called the St. Helena Library Association and Free Reading Room, it occupied a number of sites, including the front room of the Oddfellows (I.O.O.F.) Building on Main Street. In 1904, local citizens contacted library philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, who eventually donated $7,500 to construct the library building. A local bond issue for the purchase of the land and an agreement to maintain the property matched Carnegie's grant. The Carnegie Library building was built in 1908. The 2-story Mission Style building carries the characteristic curvilinear gables and semi-circular arched windows. The second story dormer windows also have a curvilinear gable. The stucco walls are plain; however, note the decorative tie-rods in front. The Carnegie Building remained St. Helena's library until 1979 when the new library facility on Library Lane was completed. Eventually, the Carnegie Building went through a much-needed earthquake retrofit. The Dr. George J. and Elsie Wood Public Library on Library Lane was completed in 1979 and then enlarged in 1996. The Napa Valley Wine Library Collection has been housed there since 1961. The Silverado Museum showcases the works and memorabilia of Robert Louis Stevenson and is adjacent to the Public Library. The Library has also worked closely with the St. Helena Historical Society, since its founding in 2002, and the Society is housed upstairs in the Library building. The Library supports the Historical Society's many efforts to preserve St. Helena's history.

"The handsome residence being erected by Mrs. M.H. Vance and Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Anderson on the hill next to York Creek and Beringer will be ready within a few weeks. Carpenters and painters will finish what is one of the finest homes in Napa Valley." (St. Helena Star). There is much of the Georgian Revival influence in its architecture. Built in 1907, the home was turned into a hotel after only four years. In 1911, Herman Schultz, a Swiss, converted the home into St. Helena's first tourist hotel and summer resort. He named it St. Gothard's Inn, after a place in his homeland. The popular hotel sat 50 people in the dining room. World War I diminished the travel business, and in 1921, the building became a hospital with 30 beds. In 1938, it again became a hotel and restaurant, with new, successive owners. They provided luxury lodging with a vineyard view. In 1956, Christian Science Church's Grandview Community Inc. became a retirement home until 1990. It became Grandview Apts. in 1991. From 2002 until 2014 the building was offices and apartments. In June of 2014, a new project broke ground and the 107-year-old structure started undergoing extensive renovations. Opened in 2017, Las Alcobas is the centerpiece of a new Luxury Collection resort that features Acacia House by Chris Cosentino, atrio spa, and over 6000 square feet of combined event space.

The building that now houses the American Legion Post 199, was built by the St. Helena Seventh Day Adventist Church for $1,220 and dedicated in 1880. The pastor lived in a side room that is now the Legion bar. The eastern section was used for Sunday school and separated by a wide drop-down door. By 1929, times were hard and the church met with financial difficulties when asked to pay for paving Oak Avenue and Madrona Avenue. The cost of paving and needed repairs to the building resulted in a decision to sell it to the American Legion. The Legion began a long process of repairs. Foundation jacks were used to raise the structure and replace the old growth redwood piers. During renovations, all electrical and plumbing was replaced. Some of the antique wiring hangs on the wall in the bar. The bar is a museum of military memorabilia. Hanging from the ceiling is a dummy practice bomb. A framed Japanese flag with a bullet hole in it hangs next to a Japanese rifle.  War posters put out by Coors are next to a plaque commemorating St. Helenans who died in war. The Kiwanis Club holds meetings in the Legion Hall. Calvary Chapel St. Helena also meets here.

On June 28, 1938, St. Helena citizens learned they were to become the recipients of a new federally funded post office building. Postmaster Joseph Galewsky and other officials opened the sealed bids. Dr. H.L. Byrd had submitted the accepted bid for a parcel of land located between Adams and Pine Streets, site of the historic Carver Mansion. The Morrison Mortuary and Funeral Parlor was leasing the property from Dr. Byrd. The asking price for this parcel was $14,000. The Morrison Mortuary had to build and relocate to a new building and the existing structure, the Carver Mansion, had to be razed. The mansion had been built in the 1870's and was known as a local landmark. The low bid for the construction of the Post Office was $49,000 from a Santa Monica construction company. Construction began in June 1940, and the official dedication was in March 1941. The stone and copper cornerstone was filled with "documents of interest to future generations, copies of the St. Helena Star, and other articles pertinent to the event." The Post Office opened for business on March 17, 1941. In 1942, less than 3 months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, concerns for heightened Civil Defense resulted in the basement of the new post office becoming a bomb shelter for persons caught downtown at the time of an air raid. Later the shelter was made into a gym for employees. The post office is a good example of a transitional style from Art Deco to Modern. Located in a shallow niche above the Postmaster's office door is a full-color mural depicting the local wine industry and its laborers. Lew Keller was the artist and the mural is a product of the Depression Era Federal Fine Arts program that was conducted between 1934 and 1943. In 1999, the local artist, Arthur Lisch, proposed that since the Keller painting depicted Anglo-European farm workers, he would paint another mural, done in a similar style, that would portray Hispanic workers picking grapes. The mural is now displayed on the opposite wall.

Generations of local residents and travelers have patronized the hamburger stand that Popsy Taylor first opened in St. Helena in 1949. In the early years, families could drive up to the hamburger stand, order and eat right in their cars. According to a press release, Virginia and her late husband, Charley Toogood, took over the restaurant in 1968 and, with other family members, operated it for the next 30 years. In 1999, Taylor's Refresher was leased to Joel and Duncan Gott, who renovated it before reopening. It is now called Gott's Roadside and is a popular eatery for both locals and visitors to St. Helena.

St. Helena's first high school held classes at the local Presbyterian Church for one year in 1895. In 1896, the high school moved into Turner Hall that used to be at Lyman Park in the center of town. Classes were held there until 1912. Work began on a new high school in 1912 with money from the 1911 school bonds and on land donated by Frances Grayson Crane. The school was built of reinforced concrete, faced with stone and roofed with slate. Students attended classes there until 1967. More modern structures on the same property now house the student body. The old school building, on the corner of Highway 29 and Grayson Avenue, underwent a major earthquake retrofit in 2003. t is now used for administration and city government meetings. The school was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 1978.

"J. T. Logan is laying out a street 60 feet wide. He has already built three cottages," reported the St. Helena Star in 1875 about Charter Oak Avenue. That year, Logan built his home at the corner of Main Street and Charter Oak Avenue. The home is now The Farmstead General Store and Cafe and is part of The Farmstead restaurant operation located south of downtown.

In 1878, John Ramos and Frank Sciaroni operated Napa Valley's 2nd Sherry facility. Sciaroni's Winery and Distillery dominated the intersection of Charter Oak and Main Street in the 1880's. This square 2-story building of fieldstone is beautifully detailed with cut-stone quoins (masonry blocks at the corner of a wall), window and door trim. Note the semi-circular arched windows with radiating quoins on the first floor and plain cut-stone molding with corbels (a type of bracket used for structural support) on the second floor. The segmental-arched doorway indicates the extreme width of the walls. For many years, Sciaroni's Sherry facility has been a popular space for restaurants. Charter Oak remains an unusually intact neighborhood of mid-19th-century cottages that reflect the character of this early neighborhood of St. Helena. The Charter Oak Restaurant now occupies the property.

1902 Train Wreck in St. Helena "For the first time in the history of St. Helena the people have seen a train wrecked within the town limits and the trouble was all caused by a gentle milch cow having no grudge whatever at the Southern Pacific Company. Monday morning at 10:25, as the northbound passenger train was steaming into town, a cow, browsing behind a clump of trees and out of sight of the engineer, ran onto the track in front of the train. There was not time to stop, as the animal was only a few yards ahead of the train, so the engineer opened the throttle in hopes of increasing the speed to a rate sufficient to knock the cow off the track." (St. Helena Star, Nov. 11, 1902). Unfortunately, the distance was too short and the cow was thrown under the train, eventually causing Engine #1309 to come off the track at the crossing of Charter Oak and land in the Sciaroni cellar yard, uprooting a tree, damaging the tender and mail car, and injuring several train employees. No passengers were hurt, nor did they even realize why the train had stopped or that the disaster had occurred. Notice Sciaroni's Sherry Building in the back of the photo.

Olive groves can still be found in Napa Valley, reflecting a period when there were several olive oil manufactories in the county in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition to the California Olive Oil Manufacturing Company, once operated by David Martinelli on the west side of Railroad Avenue, there were also many similar factories or olive press houses set up like this one in a backyard barn, built by John Allison in the 19th century. The Napa Valley Olive Oil Manufacturing Company is a small Italian grocery, hidden away on a quiet neighborhood street. Allison Avenue, once known as Bridge Street, linked the neighborhood with Pope Street and the bridges over Sulphur Creek and the Napa River. The grocery has been owned and operated by the same family since G. Guidi began the business in the 1930's. It was owned by the Lucchesi and Particelli families in the 1960's and 1970's. The grocery sells a wide variety of specialty foods and olive oils. Within the 1½ story gable roof barn, the olive press, active since the turn of the century, is still visible, although it is not in use now. The frame structure has board and batten siding with shiplap siding in the gable end. Double doors are in the gable end also. Windows have plain molding. The upper windows in the gable end are a later addition, as is the side lean-to.

In 1875, when the St. Helena Viticultural Society was organized, the founders and officers decided they needed a warehouse for the purpose of storing grape brandy in bond. This Special Internal Revenue Bonded Warehouse was built in 1878. A bonded warehouse is a building or other secured area in which dutiable goods may be stored, manipulated, or undergo manufacturing operations without payment of duty. This building is the earliest of several 19th century commercial stone warehouses built adjacent to the railroad tracks. Constructed in three separate sections at different times, the southern-most section was built in 1878. The central section was added in 1881 and the last section in 1889. The architectural features were kept constant throughout the warehouse's gradual development. State Farm Insurance, 55 Degrees Napa Valley Premiere Wine Storage, and Loomis Industries each occupy one of the three sections. The warehouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 5, 1995.

This stuccoed building was built in 1875. It has two sections that form an L-shaped plan. In 1886, called the U.S. Saloon, it offered both lodging and a bowling alley. By 1899, it had become the Roma Hotel. By 1910, the name had changed to the Miramonte Hotel. In 1922, the owner was Angelica Maliani. In 1947, Basilio Lucchesi owned the restaurant/ hotel. In 1993, Grant Showley took ownership. This building has been a restaurant for many years.  Until mid-2018, Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen occupied the building, but it is now owned by Joel Gott of Gott's Roadside.

The Taylor, Duckworth & Company Foundry Building was built in 1884 to accommodate its foundry and machine works, with a specialty in the winepresses so important to this viticultural region. It is one of several commercial warehouse buildings constructed along Railroad Avenue in the 1880's, convenient to the Southern Pacific Railroad yard for loading and unloading. The buildings comprise a unique 19th century warehouse district whose buildings have been converted to a variety of modern commercial uses. In 1890, Duckworth converted the building to the St. Helena Electric Light and Power Company, but the business failed. Labor unrest in the 1880's and 1890's in San Francisco forced Earl Raymond to move his leather glove factory to Napa and Petaluma and he also established another factory in this building. In 1930, Major Gardner had a chicken hatchery here and the building was called The Hatchery for many years after. In 1969, the upper floor of the Hatchery Building became the Silverado Museum devoted to the published works, original materials, and memorabilia of Robert Louis Stevenson. At street level was "La Belle Helene" Restaurant with offices upstairs. The R.L.S. Museum has been relocated to a building adjacent to the public library on Library Lane. The Hatchery, at one time, also housed a tearoom and The Hatchery Art Gallery. This building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1982.

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 buildings once appeared before receiving the stucco facades of the 1930's. It was originally built for the California Olive Oil Factory and was used by David B. Martinelli until, in 1912, he sold it to William Smith, owner of the early Smith's Pharmacy, Nellie Smith, widow of William Smith, deeded the building to the City of St. Helena in 1936, for use by the Boy Scouts. Today both the Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts of St. Helena hold their meetings here. Every time the building is repainted, Martinelli's name and the name of the olive oil company are repainted. Jon Dodge carefully repaints the Boy Scouts of America symbol. The plain false front with shiplap siding conceals a rectangular building with a gable roof. One and a half stories in height, windows are in the gable and facing the street. Windows are paired with double-hung sashes and the double door, centrally located, appears original with its upper glass panels. The Boy Scout Hall is one of a cluster of 19th-century residential, industrial and warehouse buildings remaining on Railroad Avenue once closely tied in with the railroad traffic.

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 traffic. By 1886, financial problems led to the sale of the Napa Valley Railroad to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Southern Pacific became a major economic force in the Napa Valley and made it possible to ship agricultural products more easily from the northern and central sections of Napa County, which were remote from the Napa river traffic further south. The Southern Pacific Railroad built a new depot at the present location in the late 1880's. It was built in 19th Century Victorian style, characteristic of Southern Pacific Depots, with a two-story main building and a long one-story enclosed waiting and baggage area. This depot is painted in the typical Southern Pacific shade of yellow. The location of the railroad tracks and depot resulted in the building of several of St. Helena's fine stone warehouse buildings in this district. On August 7, 1959, filming began in St. Helena for the Walt Disney classic, Pollyanna, starring Haley Mills, and the St. Helena Depot was one of the sites used in the movie. The depot is now used for professional offices and medical offices for the St. Helena Hospital. The St. Helena Train Depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1997.

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 these buildings were saloons at one time. The first floor is built of native fieldstone and the second floor is frame with shiplap siding. While the upstairs was proclaimed to be a boarding house, common town knowledge was that it was indeed a thriving bordello, owned and operated by an entrepreneurial 18-year-old, John Wright. Wright installed an exterior staircase going up to the premises ensuring rapid and easy access. Business thrived in this little transportation district one block off Main Street with a saloon, a depot, a bordello and a distillery. Ultimately, in 1899, the two buildings were joined, creating one busy place serving the varied needs of many people. An addition now conceals where the outside staircase ran up to the second floor for entry. Johnson's Depot Saloon catered to customers arriving and departing from St. Helena at the neighboring railroad depot. In 1922, the saloon was turned into a residence and since then has housed both residential and business spaces. In 1960, a trio of businessmen bought the buildings and accomplished a major renovation meant to return them to functional landmarks with economic potential and to bring them back to vitality as historically significant buildings. The Saloon, along with the Sherry Building, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 2007.

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 louse that is a pest of vines) had ruined the winemaking island in the mid-1800's. Ramos first worked in Napa but traveled up to St Helena to work with wine pioneer Dr. Crane in the mid to late 1870's. Ramos built the Sherry House with the full intention of developing a new world Sherry style, different than his homeland Madeira style. The Ramos Sherry House is a two-story stone building, rectangular in shape with a hip roof. The massive walls reflect its original use as a Sherry facility with the Sherry baking ovens on the second floor. Inside the building, the bending of the floor joists are from the weight they once carried when Sherry was baked in large, heavy containers on the upper level. Now the Ramos Sherry House is private offices. Like many wineries and commercial buildings built in St. Helena during the late 19th century and early 20th century, the Ramos Sherry House was built with huge hillside timbers, stone aggregate mortar and native, quarried stone, also known as trachytic tuff. This type of tuff is a remnant of the valley's volcanic history. The locally mined stone was relatively inexpensive, fire resistant and had good insulating properties, a benefit in the winemaking process. A porch was added later. A newer middle structure joins the building with the former Johnson's Depot Saloon. John Ramos initiated the Sherry Cellar now called "The Sherry House". Later, Frank Sciaroni became a partner and both became involved with the well-known viticultural pioneer, Dr. George Belden Crane. In 1880, Frank Sciaroni established his own Sherry factory on the corner of Main and Charter Oak Avenues, south of the main commercial district of St. Helena. The Sherry Building on Railroad Avenue had convenient access to the railroad yard for loading and unloading, as well as to the major warehouses in the area for storage. Several offices now occupy the building. The Sherry Building, along with the Depot Saloon, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 2007.

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. It is constructed of native cut stone and fieldstone. The building is rectangular in shape without ornamentation. The original window and door openings are rectangular, have plain lugsills, and flat lintels with radiating stones. The ease of building with stone in Napa County made it economically feasible to build even simple warehouse of stone. At one time the upper level of the feed mill/warehouse was a roller skating rink. The building received an award of merit for its renovation done in 1971. During the renovation, a water tank was discovered in the northeast corner of the building and three water cisterns were also uncovered inside the building. The building is now divided into smaller offices and businesses including St. Helena Optometry