Built in 1978. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“The French Laundry is a three-Michelin star French and Californian cuisine restaurant located in Yountville, California, in Napa Valley. Sally Schmitt opened The French Laundry in 1978 and designed her menus around local, seasonal ingredients; she was a visionary chef and pioneer of California cuisine.”
Wikipedia article The French Laundry, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 88 National Register listings published here for Napa County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1978.
National Register reference number.78000728- 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.
Then and now
1902 to 1983
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19021983
Fires near this property
291 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 291 fires within 5 miles of French Laundry
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,672 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
140
Equipment and vehicle use
69
Debris and open burning
26
Smoking
24
Power generation/transmission/distribution
17
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Arson/incendiarism
3
Natural
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
10 workings within 5 miles of French Laundry: 5 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Copper, Geothermal, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Yountville, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 4 flood, 2 heavy rain, 2 hail, 2 debris flow.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Strong wind combined with heavy rain to force a substantial oak tree to fall at the Hotel Yountville in Yountville Sunday afternoon. The Oak tree was to have been a major focus of the landscaping plan. The tree fell onto a new rock wall and damaged a pump house.
Washington Street was flooded on both sides of its intersection with California Drive for several hours early in the afternoon of December 23. The Napa Valley Wine train shortened its route due to water on the tracks.
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.
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.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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