{"nrhp_refnum":"01000878","name":"Beringer Brothers-Los Hermanos Winery","other_names":["Beringer Winery Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2000 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saint Helena","county":"Napa County","state":"CA","lat":38.51212597250003,"lon":-122.48096918706358,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-08-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A winery historic district of about eight acres on the west side of State Highway 29 at the north end of St. Helena, Napa County, California. It was developed by the Beringer family beginning in 1875-1878 and includes the winery, residences, support buildings, aging tunnels and landscape features.","why_significant":"The district is described as one of the few Napa Valley winery sites that still retains its winery, support structures, residential areas, vineyard setting and site circulation from its period of significance. It also has extensive hand-dug stone aging tunnels, which are unusual in the valley. The Beringer Brothers winery was the first in the valley to open for public tours and sales, in 1934.","narrative":"Beringer Winery Historic District occupies about eight acres along State Highway 29 at the north end of St. Helena. Jacob Beringer bought the land in 1875 and had a two-story stone winery built into the hillside by 1878, with aging tunnels dug into the slope behind it. His brother Frederick joined him in 1883 and commissioned German-born architect Albert Schroepfer to design the half-timbered Rhine House, finished in 1884. The older Hudson House, dating from about 1852, was moved and remodeled. Elm trees planted in 1885 and a stone wall still line the road. After Prohibition ended, the family added winery wings, an expanded office and a second distillery by 1935, and in 1934 the winery became the first in the Napa Valley to offer public tours and sales. The district has six contributing buildings, one contributing site, and keeps the layout of winery, homes and circulation routes that existed when the family ran it.","period_of_significance":"1878 - 1935","architect_builder":"Albert Schroepfer (architect of the Rhine House); built by the Beringer family (Jacob and Frederick Beringer)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian, Queen Anne, Mission Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used for wine processing and as a visitor and sales site; the castle-like distillery was demolished in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.891233-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/01000878.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000878/0173374241-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000878/0173374241-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Frank Schulenburg","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhine_House,_Beringer_Vineyards.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Schulenburg</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhine_House,_Beringer_Vineyards.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859994","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringer_Vineyards","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4891843"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/napa-county/beringer-brothers-los-hermanos-winery-01000878/"}