Temelec Hall

	Temelec Hall
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	California Historical Landmark No. 237
	Temelec Hall
Location	220 Temelec Circle, Sonoma, California
Coordinates	38°20′14″N 122°00′56″W / 38.33729°N 122.0155°W
Built	1858, 166 years ago
Architectural style	East Coast Federalist
NRHP reference No.	06000312
CHISL No.	237
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 19, 2006
Designated CHISL	June 10, 1936

Temelec Hall is historical building built in 1858, in Sonoma, California in Sonoma County, California. The Temelec Hall is a California Historical Landmark No. 496 listed on June 10, 1936. Temelec Hall is also a National Register of Historic Places April 19, 2006. Temelec Hall was built by Captain Granville P. Swift (1821-1875), a member of the Bear Flag Party and took part in the short Mexican–American War in 1846–1848. Swift was the great-grandnephew to Daniel Boone. Swift found gold in 1849 California Gold Rush. With the gold, Swift built the building with stone quarried here by native labor. General Persifor Frazer Smith, a United States Army commander in lived in a small house near Temelec Hall in 1849. After Swift Temelec Hall was sold a few times. In 1915 it was sold to the Coblentz family, who restored the run down building. Coblentz family sold the Hall and it lands in 1961, to a developer. The developer built the Temelec retirement community with the Hall as historical centerpiece.^[2]^[3]^[4]

A historical marker is at Temelec Hall, placed by the by Native Sons of the Golden West in 2008.^[5]

References[edit]

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "BRIEF HISTORY". September 8, 2012.
^ "Temelec Hall #237". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
^ "CHL # 496 Swiss Hotel Sonoma". www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com.
^ "Temelec Hall Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[2] "BRIEF HISTORY". September 8, 2012.

[3] "Temelec Hall #237". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved 2012-10-07.

[4] "CHL # 496 Swiss Hotel Sonoma". www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com.

[5] "Temelec Hall Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.

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