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How can you enter our current photography competition? Click the link in bio, fill out this registration link and send us your print and digital copies of your photos. Deadline for entries is March 21, 2021 at 11:59pm. #NapaHistory #NapaThenAndNow #PhotoCompetition2021 #ThePresenceOfThePast #PhotoChallenge #PhotoJournalism #photographer #HistoricPhotography

What buildings are included in the 2021 photography competition? Beringer Winery The Beringer Winery was built in the vernacular style of gravity flow wineries by Chinese workmen for Jacob Beringer in 1877. Jacob Beringer had trained in viticulture in his native Germany and in France prior to emigration to the U.S. with his brother, Frederick, in the 1860s. The hillside property, known as the "Old Hudson Place,” for David Hudson, early pioneer and owner, was purchased by the Beringers for its steep hillside location, ideal for aging tunnels and the winery stepped into the hillside. Tunnels burrow 1,000 feet into the hillside. Originally the winery was two stories of native stone with a sloping flat roof. By 1889 the third level was added of frame and shiplap with a low hip roof and cupola. Semi-circular doorways have quoins and keystones and the arched windows have cut stone moldings and keystones. When the frame third story was added the stone details were duplicated in wood. Roads in the hillside service the three levels in the traditional manner with crushing and pressing at top, fermenting on the second level and aging on the ground level. NCHS Postcard Collection ; Text excerpted from the description in the 1977 survey, Historic Resources Inventory #NapaHistory #NapaThenAndNow #PhotoCompetition2021 #ThePresenceOfThePast #PhotoChallenge #PhotoJournalism #photographer #HistoricPhotography

What buildings are included in the 2021 photography competition? First Presbyterian Church An exceptional example of late Victorian Gothic church architecture, The original wood frame 1874 First Presbyterian Church with its 1890 chapel wing to the rear has survived with only minor changes. Consistent with the Victorian Gothic style, the gable, eave and entryway trim is massive and defined in a contrasting color and the traditional Gothic pointed-arch windows and doors are used. Not the unusual wood decorative trim of the third level of the tower. In 1911, the original gas fixtures were converted to electricity and are in use today. The First Presbyterian Church congregation was established in 1853-54 by the rev. J.C.Herron, from Philadelphia. Nathan Coombs donated the site and the first church was completed in 1857. It was moved from the site when the present was constructed. The interior was altered slightly when the Pipe organ was moved. The organ came from San Francisco in 1847 via river steamer to Napa. Object ID 1979.70.4; Text excerpted from the description in the 1977 survey, Historic Resources Inventory #NapaHistory #NapaThenAndNow #PhotoCompetition2021 #ThePresenceOfThePast #PhotoChallenge #PhotoJournalism #photographer #HistoricPhotography

What buildings are included in the 2021 photography competition? Napa Soda Springs The 27 mineral springs were first developed in the late 1850s by Amos Buskman and Charles Allen in the bottling of “Napa soda”. Col. Jackson died in 1900 and with WWI came the end of the resort era in Napa County. Fires have taken the buildings over the years; most recently in the 1940s, remnants of the formal gardens remain as do the Springs. Object ID 2011.61.2138; Text excerpted from the description in the 1977 survey, Historic Resources Inventory #NapaHistory #NapaThenAndNow #PhotoCompetition2021 #ThePresenceOfThePast #PhotoChallenge #PhotoJournalism #photographer #HistoricPhotography

What buildings are included in the 2021 photography competition? Pope Street Bridge Built in 1894 by R.H.Pithie, the Scots stonemason responsible for many of the 19th century stone buildings in St. Helena, the Stone Bridge was the example which proved that stone was more economical than steel and gave Napa County its legacy of fine stone bridges remaining today. The three-span stone Pope Street Bridge of native stone quarried locally replaced the earlier “Long Bridge”, a wooden structure which disappeared in the high waters of 1895. As a result of the success of the Pope Street Stone Bridge Pithie was to receive contracts to build stone bridges throughout the County. From 1894 until the 1920s, stone bridges would replace the earlier wood bridges. The stone was roughly cut at the quarries then carried to the site when the actual fitting took place. Timber was used to frame the arches for the stone. The width of the stone bridges usually accommodated two wagons, about 20 feet. NCHS Postcard Collection; Text excerpted from the description in the 1977 survey, Historic Resources Inventory #NapaHistory #NapaThenAndNow #PhotoCompetition2021 #ThePresenceOfThePast #PhotoChallenge #PhotoJournalism #photographer #HistoricPhotography