Larkmead Winery - Calistoga, CA
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saopaulo1
N 38° 33.533 W 122° 31.356
10S E 541594 N 4267936
The old Larkmead Winery in Calistoga, CA.
Waymark Code: WMRAHB
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/31/2016
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"Larkmead Winery, a two-story native stone winery, is situated near the Napa River on the Napa Valley floor surrounded by vineyards and the narrowing upper Napa Valley. Visible from the main north-south thoroughfare, Highway 29-128, Larkmead Winery, shaded by elms, appears little altered from the turn-of-the-century. Local stonemasons, G-. Brovelli & Co. of St. Helena, constructed the gravity-flow winery to the specifications of local carpenter/builder Wilbur A. Harrison in 1906 with stone quarried from the nearby ranches of A. Ritcher and D. von Deuring. Designed on a square floor plan (66' x 66 1 ), the rock-faced random-coursed walls on the south and west, and the fieldstone walls on the east and north, are 34* in height with the first level walls 20 ! high and the second level walls 14* high. Tie-rods are visible at the 20 f line. Pointing of the exterior west and south walls is finely detailed with a distinctive "bead." Interior walls and the north and east facades are only roughly pointed. The craftsmanship in stone of the southwest facade indicates that then, as now, it was the "front" of the winery." (
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