Discover Historic St. Helena

A self-guided tour through St. Helena’s most storied streets. Explore the buildings, the builders, and the stories that shaped Napa Valley’s most charming town.

50 historic sites · 151+ years of history · free & self-guided ↓ Download printable map

Kibbler Building

1422 to 1428 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

William T. Kibbler built this structure in 1886. He had been a clerk at the Wonderful Drug Store, but he eventually moved to San Francisco. A later owner was John…

Daniel Otis Hunt Building

1302 to 1308 Main Street and 1118 Hunt Avenue, St. Helena, CA

The Daniel Otis Hunt Building was completed in March of 1892. The Wonderful Drug Store was the first lessee and the most colorful occupant. It remained on this corner for…

1310 Main Street

1310 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

This single-story stucco-finished building was built in 1875. The ground floor has two entrances. The one on the left leads to the street level business. The one on the right…

1312-1314 Main Street

1312 to 1314 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

This stucco-finished building was built circa 1920 and was remodeled circa 1947. It is actually two separate storefronts. During the 1950’s, this building housed a jewelry store, a dentist’s office,…

1316 Main Street

1316 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

1316 Main This single-story stucco-finished building was built in 1920. It has a stepped parapet and a plain parapet. The windows on the right appear to date from around 1947.…

Traub/Keller Building

1320 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

The Traub/Keller building was built in 1915. The first building on this site was a small frame building, dating from the late 1850’s to the early 1860’s, and was used…

1328 Main Street

1328 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

The St. Helena Star was founded in 1874. In 1900, ground was broken for this new building. Scottish stonemason, R.H. Pithie, built the walls. When the cornerstone was laid, a…

Cameo Cinema Building

1332 to 1342 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

First Theater: Turner Hall, ca 1912 The first Goodman & Galewsky (G & G) Theater was housed in Turner Hall where Lyman Park is now. In 1913, the St. Helena…

1346 Main Street

1346 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

This single-story gabled roof building was built in 1876. The awning obscures much of the stuccoed parapet wall and all of a clerestory band of windows, built above eye level…

Odd Fellows Building

1350 to 1354 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

This 2-story Italianate building was built in 1885. It has a brick. It has a brick façade and side and rear walls of randomly coursed stone. This building was designed…

Kettlewell Building (Kettlewell-Vasconi Building)

1379 to 1381 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

Joseph Kettlewell was a skilled blacksmith who arrived here in 1872 and began to establish a business. In 1884, Kettlewell and his son built the present day brick building. It…

1371-1375 Main Street

1371 to 1375 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

The owner, Caroline Adsit, built this single-story building of native stone in 1884. When the building was finished, but empty, an “Old Clothes Ball” was held with a live band.…

1367 Main Street

1367 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

This single-story building was built in 1888. It has a brick façade topped by a flat, decorated parapet. Below it are a slightly raised cornice and dentil course with ornamental…

1357-1359 Main Street

1357-1359 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

Model Bakery, 1357 Main Street Dennis Rae – 1359 Main Street This single-story building was built in 1936. It has a flat parapet topped with narrow terra cotta bands.Two businesses…

Bank of St. Helena Building

1351 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

In 1890, Charles Greenfield built his new building on Main Street. The contract was awarded to John C. Mixon & Son. The St. Helena Star reported on July 25 that…

Owen Wade Building

1347 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

Owen Wade built this single-story stucco-finished building in 1890. William H. Smith moved St. Helena Pharmacy into the building in 1895 and later renamed it Smith’s Pharmacy. The building was…

1339-1341 Main Street

1339 to 1341 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

This single-story building was built in 1875. It has a flat parapet with a dentil course and a plain parapet wall. The building does not appear to have been altered…

1313-1317 Main Street

1313 to 1317 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

This single-story building was built in 1875. The stucco finish may date to the 1920’s. At 1317 Main is Salon St. Helena, but it was once a florist shop in…

Hotel St. Helena

1305 to 1309 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

Born in Sweden, Swen Alstrom traveled and worked in several hotels in San Francisco. In 1861, he bought the White Sulphur Springs Resort in St. Helena. He lived there for…

Goodman Building – Main Street Square

1269 to 1299 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

Goodman Building In 1911, Abraham Goodman built this single-story building for his Goodman & Co. department store. It is constructed of concrete block on the facade and pitch- face native…

Carver Block (D. B. Carver Building)

1235 to 1239 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

Carver Block D. B. Carver built this 2-story Italianate brick building in 1880 for his store. The second story was added by Carver as a meeting room for the Masonic…

1225-1227 Main Street and 1231 Main Street

1231 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

Giugnis Grocery The C. E. Davis buildings were built in 1875. Dr. Davis was born in New Jersey in 1832. Eventually he became more interested in dentistry, rather than medicine,…

1219 Main Street

1219 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

The original building on this site was the National Hotel built in 1875. The current building is 20th Century and has a nearly symmetrical front that features a flat parapet…

Goodman Building

1201 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

Abraham Goodman was born in Hungary in 1851. In 1879, Abraham moved to St. Helena and, after his merchandise business, “The San Francisco Auction House” grew, he built these two…

Electroliers

Main Street, St. Helena, CA (from Sulphur Creek to York Creek)

Electrolier St. Helena’s iconic streetlights are known as electroliers. The 1913 St. Helena Chamber of Commerce Vintage Festival Committee met and decided to investigate the cost of installing street lighting…

1228 Spring Street

1228 Spring Street, St. Helena, CA

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…

1314 Spring Street

1314 Spring Street, St. Helena, CA

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…

1313 Spring Street

1313 Spring Street, St. Helena, CA

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…

1310 Oak Avenue

1310 Oak Avenue, St. Helena, CA

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…

1420 Spring Street

1420 Spring Street, St. Helena, CA

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,…

1255 Oak Avenue

1255 Oak Avenue, St. Helena, CA

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…

1225 – 1229 Adams Street

1225 – 1229 Adams Street, St. Helena, CA

Adams Street view 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…

1310 Adams Street

1310 Adams Street, St. Helena, CA

Moving the parsonage 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…

1325 Adams Street

1325 Adams Street, St. Helena, CA

First schoolhouse, circa 1882 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,…

1360 Oak Avenue

1360 Oak Avenue, St. Helena, CA

Dr. George J. and Elsie Wood Public Library The St. Helena Library was begun privately as a subscription library by the townspeople in 1875. Called the St. Helena Library Association…

Alila Napa Valley (formerly Las Alcobas, St. Gothard’s Inn)

1915 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

Residence St. Gothard’s Inn Los Alcobas “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…

1291 Madrona Avenue

1291 Madrona Avenue, St. Helena, CA

1291 Madrona 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…

St. Helena Post Office

1461 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

Carver mansion Keller mural Post Office On June 28, 1938, St. Helena citizens learned they were to become the recipients of a new federally funded post office building. Postmaster Joseph…

Gott’s Roadside (formerly Taylor’s Refresher)

933 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

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…

1401 Grayson Avenue

1401 Grayson Avenue, St. Helena, CA

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…

Farmstead at Long Meadow Ranch (formerly James and Unity Logan Home)

738 Main Street, St. Helena, CA

“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,…

1050 Charter Oak

1050 Charter Oak, St. Helena, CA

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…

835 Charter Oak Avenue

835 Charter Oak Avenue, St. Helena, CA

835 Charter Oak 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…

1216 Church Street

1216 Church Street, St. Helena, CA

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…

1327 Railroad Avenue

1327 Railroad Avenue, St. Helena, CA

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.…

1345 Railroad Avenue

1345 Railroad Avenue, St. Helena, CA

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.…

Scout Hall, Railroad Avenue

Scout Hall, Railroad Avenue, St. Helena, CA

Scout Hall 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…

1500 Railroad Avenue

1500 Railroad Avenue, St. Helena, CA

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…

1468 Railroad Avenue

1468 Railroad Avenue, St. Helena, CA

This map from 1945 shows the Sherry House (blue) and the Depot Saloon (red) with the middle structure joining the two. Blue denotes a stone structure and red denotes a…

1104 Adams Street

1104 Adams Street, St. Helena, CA

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…