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Overview

This small library served for many years as a functioning library for the City of Napa, the gift of local banker George E. Goodman.

Building History

Bank president George Edmond Goodman (born 07/05/1823 in Rochester, NY-d. 06/18/1917 in Napa, CA) provided the land and building funds to erect this late Richardsonian Romanesque library in Napa, CA. He made it a condition of his bequest that the building had to be used by the City of Napa as a library, or its ownership would revert to his heirs. It became utilized by the Napa County Historical Society and Napa County Landmarks during the 1970s. In 2025, only the historical society continued to use the former Goodman Library and it maintained a research library there, fulfilling the terms of Goodman's bequest.

Building Notes

The Goodman Library had a symmetrical facade facing 1st Street, with three bays, the center of which projected in front of the other two. The central bay was topped by a square turret. Architect Luther M. Turton (1862-1925) clad the exterior with coursed ashlar.