Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Blue Wing Inn in Sonoma, California, was one of the first hotels, reputedly the first hotel, built in California north of San Francisco. The original hotel, constructed by order of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo in 1836, was a simple one-story building. However, in 1848 during the California Gold Rush it was purchased by seafarer James Cooper and ship's carpenter Thomas Spriggs, who together expanded the hotel to incorporate a saloon. They added an upper floor and expanded the ground floor from one room to three; further expansion in 1852 included balconies and two more rooms on the second floor. Up to that point, the hotel had been known as Sonoma House. It was Spriggs who named it the Blue Wing, in July 1853.The Blue Wing did not remain a hotel, or gambling hall, past 1880. First it became a stagecoach depot. Later it was to become a grocery store. It was bought in 1900 by Agostino Pinelli, who converted it into a winery. Some histories record that the Blue Wing figured in Pinelli's famous use of the contents of his 1,000-US-gallon (3,800 l; 830 imp gal) wine tank to help put out the Sonoma Fire of September 23, 1911. In fact, the tank was held in a cellar of a building adjacent to the Blue Wing, which in 2004 had become a florist's shop.In 1939 a writer for the Federal Writers' Project described the Blue Wing as "shabby". By then, it was in part used as a museum that contained various memorabilia, including a music box that "still tinkles when fed coins" and a fire engine, Sonoma's first, whose painted decorations were described as "faded birds and flowers".After restorative work, the Blue Wing became mainly a retail center. In 1968 the state Department of Parks and Recreation acquired it, intending to make it into a house museum, but funding problems prevented this. The state repaired and reroofed it in 1984. The Blue Wing Adobe Trust was founded in 2010 and the following year formed a partnership with Parks and Recreation to fully restore it and find an appropriate reuse.. }
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- Blue_Wing_Inn abstract "The Blue Wing Inn in Sonoma, California, was one of the first hotels, reputedly the first hotel, built in California north of San Francisco. The original hotel, constructed by order of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo in 1836, was a simple one-story building. However, in 1848 during the California Gold Rush it was purchased by seafarer James Cooper and ship's carpenter Thomas Spriggs, who together expanded the hotel to incorporate a saloon. They added an upper floor and expanded the ground floor from one room to three; further expansion in 1852 included balconies and two more rooms on the second floor. Up to that point, the hotel had been known as Sonoma House. It was Spriggs who named it the Blue Wing, in July 1853.The Blue Wing did not remain a hotel, or gambling hall, past 1880. First it became a stagecoach depot. Later it was to become a grocery store. It was bought in 1900 by Agostino Pinelli, who converted it into a winery. Some histories record that the Blue Wing figured in Pinelli's famous use of the contents of his 1,000-US-gallon (3,800 l; 830 imp gal) wine tank to help put out the Sonoma Fire of September 23, 1911. In fact, the tank was held in a cellar of a building adjacent to the Blue Wing, which in 2004 had become a florist's shop.In 1939 a writer for the Federal Writers' Project described the Blue Wing as "shabby". By then, it was in part used as a museum that contained various memorabilia, including a music box that "still tinkles when fed coins" and a fire engine, Sonoma's first, whose painted decorations were described as "faded birds and flowers".After restorative work, the Blue Wing became mainly a retail center. In 1968 the state Department of Parks and Recreation acquired it, intending to make it into a house museum, but funding problems prevented this. The state repaired and reroofed it in 1984. The Blue Wing Adobe Trust was founded in 2010 and the following year formed a partnership with Parks and Recreation to fully restore it and find an appropriate reuse.".