A stone landmark in Calistoga,
138 years on.

Francis House was built in 1886 as the home of John Francis, a Welsh stonemason who arrived in Calistoga during the town's first decade. He cut the stone himself, from a quarry a mile from the site. The result is the only French Second Empire stone building in Napa County, and one of the few of its kind west of the Mississippi.

The house lived several lives before its most recent transition. A private residence for most of the twentieth century. A bed and breakfast for parts of the eighties and nineties. By the early 2020s, it had been carefully restored as an eight-room inn, with a kitchen built around a wood-fired oven and a garden that runs to the back of the property.

The 2024 transaction began on the buyer's side. Federico was working with an investor whose portfolio of distinguished hospitality properties had a clear shape but a single absence: the right historic property in Napa. The Francis House was never listed. It belonged to owners who were open to the right offer from the right party, represented by an agent who knew them well.

Within a year of taking possession, Francis House earned its first MICHELIN Key, the guide's recognition of hotels that distinguish themselves as destinations in their own right. It remains the only MICHELIN Key in Calistoga.