AKA: Coppola, Francis Ford, House, Rutherford, CA
Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses - chateaux
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: [unspecified]
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