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Sonoma Barracks

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The Sonoma Barracks (Spanish: Cuartel de Sonoma) is a two-story, wide-balconied, adobe building facing the central plaza of the City of Sonoma, California. It was built by order of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo to house the Mexican soldiers that had been transferred from the Presidio of San Francisco in 1835. The Presidio Company and their commander, Vallejo, were also responsible for controlling the Native Americans living on the northern border of Mexican California. On June 14, 1846, the Pueblo of Sonoma was taken over by a group of American immigrants seeking to establish their own California Republic. The barracks became the headquarters this short-lived insurrection later known as the Bear Flag Revolt. Believing that war with Mexico had been declared, ships of the U.S. Pacific Squadron took over Monterey on July 7 and Yerba Buena (now San Francisco) on July 9, 1846. The U. S. flag was raised at the barracks that same day – ending the California Republic and the Bear Flag Revolt. After that, the barracks was used by U.S. forces until 1852. Throughout the Mexican–American War and the subsequent California Gold Rush these forces continued to confront Native Americans hostile to invaders occupying their lands.When the military left, the building was used for a number of civilian purposes until being acquired by the State of California in 1957. The Sonoma Barracks is now part of Sonoma State Historic Park.

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Swiss Hotel
Swiss Hotel

Swiss Hotel is historical building built in 1850, in Sonoma, California in Sonoma County, California. The Swiss Hotel is a California Historical Landmark No. 496 listed on October 17, 1951. Swiss Hotel was built by Don Salvador Vallejo, brother of Mexican General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Don Salvador Vallejo built next to the Swiss Hotel his house, Salvador Vallejo Adobe, in 1836. The Swiss Hotel has been sold number of time. In the 1870s the hotel was a stagecoach stop. The hotel was sold in 1892 to the Toroni family, which ran the Ticino Hotel. Ticino Hotel had guest from the nearyby railroad station and its employees. The original Ticino Hotel, west side of the Plaza, was lost in a fire. In 1923 the hotel was sold to Mose Mastelotto, then inherited by his daughter, Antonetta and her husband Henry Marioni in 1929. In 1945, Marioni daughter, Helen, and her husband Ted Dunlap inherited the Hotel running it until 1991. In 1991 their nephew Hank Marioni remodeled and updated the old building, still in the family. The hotel and restaurant are at 18 West Spain Street, Sonoma. In 1861, it was sold to Dr. Victor J. Faure, of the Vallejo family vineyards. At its peak the Vallejo vineyard had more than 18,000 vines. Vallejo vineyard was the first commercial vineyard in Sonoma County. The Swiss Hotel is near the Sonoma State Historic Park and across the street from the Sonoma Plaza.A historical marker is at Swiss Hotel, placed by the California State Park Commission.