Beringer Brothers-Los Hermanos Winery

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.