Frank Family
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The Frank family is thought to be the first Jewish family to settle in Calistoga, California -around 1860.
Their home, a modest Victorian cottage, built in the 1870’s, now houses the Sharpsteen Museum at 1317 Washington Street.
Jacob Frank operated a mercantile store on the ground floor of the Odd Fellows building in Calistoga.
The Frank’s home in Calistoga, CA, currently the Sharpsteen Museum
Sources
- I. C. Adams, Memoirs and Anecdotes of Early Calistoga (Calistoga, 1946).
- Lin Weber, Under the Vine and the Fig Tree: The Jews of Napa Valley (Jewish Historical Society of Napa Valley, 2003).
- Henry Michalski and Donna Mendelsohn, Napa Valley’s Jewish Heritage (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2012).
- Jewish Historical Society of Napa Valley, info@jhsnv.org
Lauren Chevlen is curator of this Frank Family exhibit.
