Photograph of Culinary Institute of America at Greystone — Photograph by Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Greystone Cellars

Built in 1889. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1942.

From the record

“The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone is a branch campus of the private culinary college the Culinary Institute of America. The Greystone campus, located on State Route 29/128 in St.”
Wikipedia article The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 88 National Register listings published here for Napa County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1889.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2555 Main St., St. Helena, 94574
When was it listed? August 1978
Category. building
Census division. St. Helena
When was it built? 1889
National Register reference number. 78000725 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

235 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Greystone Cellars between 1992 and 2020, burning about 68,228 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90
Equipment and vehicle use	67
Debris and open burning	39
Arson/incendiarism	14
Smoking	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	SPRING
8 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	WEST
6 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	SPRING WHITE 2
5 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	SMOKEY OAK
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	HOFACKET
28 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	LAS POSADAS RD ANGWIN 22
28 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	WILSON
28 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	WHITEHALL

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Greystone Cellars: 12 occurrences, 5 producers, 2 past producers, 2 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Mercury, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Moore Creek Prospect	Manganese	Past Producer	1918
Sullinger Claim	Chromium	Occurrence	Chromite
Annadel Farm	Perlite	Producer
Glass Mountain Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Prospect
Napa Valley Stone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Stirling	Iron	Occurrence	Hematite
Unnamed Location	Perlite	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Iron	Unknown
Unknown	Mercury	Occurrence
Unknown	Mercury	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Napa County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1942 USGS St. Helena quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS St. Helena quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS St. Helena quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1960 USGS St. Helena quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Healdsburg quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Charles Krug Winery	0.3 miles	1974
Beringer Brothers-Los Hermanos Winery	0.3 miles	2001
J.C. Weinberger Winery	0.4 miles	2015
Rhine House	0.4 miles	1972
Saint Helena Southern Pacific Railroad Depot	0.9 miles	1997
John Ramos Sherry House-Depot Saloon	0.9 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000725 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Napa County	All 88 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.