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and her second husband Elmer M. Awl. The headline on the August 29, 1941 edition of the Sonoma Index-Tribune read âSonomaâs Old
Landmark is Saved by Elmer Awlâ. The Awls did some much-needed repairs to the building and demolished the wooden western addition but soon divorced. The building was sold
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east room housed a clothing store. Eva
Rideout inherited the property when Tivnen died in 1892. She sold the property to Agostino Pinelli for $ 425 on February 4, 1895. He was a vintner and probably had been the main tenant in the building. He continued to make wine in the building until the 1919
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Some histories record that the Blue Wing figured in
Pinelli's famous use of the contents of his wine tank to help put out the Sonoma fire of September 23, 1911. The tank was held in a cellar of a building adjacent to the Blue Wing but Pinelli did help stop the fire and the Blue Wing only suffered a
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depot. The 1888 Sanborn fire insurance map indicates the building had been enlarged by a wood-frame addition on the west end and most of the building was used for making and storing wine. The same map shows that the central room on the first floor was occupied by a grocer named
Monferdini and the
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Shortly before his death, Cooper sold the Blue Wing Inn to his attorney, State
Senator Martin E. Cooke. After Cooke's death in 1858 the Inn went through a succession of owners. Patrick Hayne owned and operated the property as the "Blue Wing Tavern" until 1863 when the tavern was sold to Margaret
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Cooper and his family lived on a ranch he had purchased from
Mariano Vallejo. He prospered from both the Inn and the ranch and became the second wealthiest man in Sonoma (after Vallejo). He was stabbed and killed on September 5, 1856, in a fight with D. M. Graham, the local schoolmaster. Graham
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The hotel was known as Sonoma House. This was the name of an earlier business that Cooper and a different partner had operated near the southeastern corner of the Sonoma's plaza. Thomas
Spriggs died in May 1851 and soon thereafter the name of the inn was changed to Blue Wing Inn. The reason for
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and the padre's quarters. Fr. Quijas, the parish priest, soon complained about Ortega's treatment of the Native
Americans. It wasn't until the summer of 1837, because of new scandals and unsatisfactory accounts, that Vallejo removed Ortega as majordomo. Ortega continued to live in the adobe and
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adobe. In 1852 they completed a 35â by 35â two story adobe addition abutting the west end of the original structure. According to reports of travelers, The dining room and kitchen were located in the east room of the first floor. The central room served as the gambling room and the westernmost
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acquired it, intending to make it into a house museum, but funding problems prevented this. The state repaired and re-roofed it in 1984. The Blue Wing Adobe Trust was founded in 2010 and the following year formed a partnership with Parks and
Recreation to fully restore it and find an appropriate
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The Blacks, who owned the Blue Wing for over twenty years, began a succession of restoration projects. They patched missing adobe brick then applied stucco and whitewash to the walls. They added a new concrete slab and converted several exterior openings - windows to doors and
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Agostino
Pinelli died in 1925 and left the property to his wife Rosa. During this period the Sonoma Chamber of Commerce moved into the first floor where the âBlue Wing Museumâ began operating. The long-neglected building fell into disrepair. In 1939 a writer for the
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it was used by miners going to and from the gold fields and by the U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Sonoma. After many years, owners and uses - the Blue Wing Inn was purchased by the State of California in 1968 and is currently under study for its best use as part of
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and Cooper may have been wanting to take advantage of that popularity. Stories and myths about goings on at Sonoma House and the Blue Wing Inn are plentiful. Among the notables said to have stayed, gambled or drank there are
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The property was purchased from Ortega by James C. Cooper and Thomas Spriggs on August 15, 1849 (the transfer was witnessed by Vallejo). Cooper and Spriggs soon expanded the hotel to incorporate a gambling hall and a
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described the Blue Wing as "shabby". By then, it was in part used as a museum that contained various memorabilia, including a music box that "still tinkles when fed coins" and a
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housed the saloon and business office. One the second floor the west and central rooms housed overnight guests. For a time Cooper housed his family in the eastern room.
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