Turton, Not Dolliver, Designed the 1913 Santa Rosa City Hall

Submitted by krinehart on January 23, 2017 - 1:00pm
  • Santa Rosa City Hall on Hinton Street - Photo Scanned from Santa Rosa A Twentieth Century Town by Gaye LeBaron & Joann Mitchell photo

    Santa Rosa City Hall on Hinton Street - Photo Scanned from Santa Rosa A Twentieth Century Town by Gaye LeBaron & Joann Mitchell

For those of you who read my last blog "Interesting Discovery at the Sonoma County Archives" you know that I claimed that J.W. Dolliver designed Santa Rosa's City Hall. Not true. Dolliver did in fact bid on the project, but it was Napa architect, Luther Turton (1862-1925) who got the contract. This I learned from Jeff Elliott, a local historian and regular visitor to the Sonoma County History & Genealogy Library. Jeff has his own history blog. Check out his latest post http://santarosahistory.com/wordpress/2017/01/our-forgotten-city-hall/ . A very interesting read!

Thank you Jeff. We will now up date our cataloging notes for the few photos in the Library's collection of the Santa Rosa City Hall, that stood on Hinton Avenue between 1913 and 1969.

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