AKA: Coppola, Francis Ford, House, Rutherford, CA

Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses - chateaux

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: [unspecified]

Rutherford, CA

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A leading Napa Valley winery, long known for its Inglenook label;

This massive, masonry chateau was built for the Finnish sea captain, Gustav Niebaum, who retired from the Alaskan fur trade in the 1880s; Niebaum became the first California vintner to achieve acclaim for his Inglenook wine label; film director, Francis Ford Coppola bought the Niebaum chateau and parts of the vineyards in 1975; in 1995, Coppola purchased the remaining land on the estate from the beverage company Heublein in 1995;

PCAD id: 1785