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Napa State Hospital and its Multiple Personalities

Event Details

Date Thursday, April 23, 2026
Time 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Venue Heritage Center
Address 1255 Oak Avenue
St. Helena, CA 94574
Type Talks

About This Event

With architectural historian Rebecca Yerger.

In 1872, work began on the 500-bed, four-story Gothic hospital building — a response to overcrowding at the Stockton Asylum, California’s first state hospital. It is the oldest state hospital still in operation, and was once largely self-sufficient, with its own dairy and poultry ranches, vegetable gardens, orchards, and other farming operations. But the hospital also has a troubled past, with reports of paranormal activity.