Head south on First Street East.

542 First St. East
c. 1850s
First known as Ames Chapel and one of the first Protestant churches built north of San Francisco, this single-story Gothic Revival church, now the First Baptist Church, was originally located on Napa Street.

564 First Street East
c. late 1850s
This Carpenter Gothic cottage with intricate trim has only a single story and it originally had a symmetrical floor plan of entry with one room on each side and one room in back; a rear kitchen was added later. Note the Fleur-de-lis patterned barge board, finials at gabled roof ends and scalloped dentil. Like the Vallejo Home, it is a good example of the Gothic Revival style introduced to America by Hudson River architect A. J. Downing. It was moved here from Fourth Street West in the 1860s.

579 First Street East
c. 1847
Built by H. A. Green, this small, 1-1/2-story adobe originally had two rooms upstairs and two rooms down, with a lean-to at the rear. The covered porch has a brick floor and redwood hand-hewn beams; the roof has split shakes.

John H. Nash, an American citizen, lived here and was arrested here by Lt. William Tecumseh Sherman in July 1847, because he refused to turn over his office to American-appointed Alcalde, Lilburn W. Boggs.

This California pioneer adobe was purchased in 1848 by Patton and his wife, Nancy Bones Patton, a survivor of the Donner Party. The adobe was restored in 1931 by Nancy’s great-granddaughter, Zolita Bates, and is very much in its original physical appearance. (CHL No 667).

525 First Street East
c. 1900
This small, gabled roof building was once the Post Office but is best known locally as Sonoma’s first public library. It opened here in 1919 and was operated by a group from the Sonoma Valley Woman’s Club.