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Alila Napa Valley
St. Helena, California, United States · Alila · High Luxury
This 1907 Georgian Revival farmhouse became St. Helena's first tourist hotel in 1911, when Swiss immigrant Herman Schultz renamed it St. Gothard's Inn, then cycled through a World War I-era hospital, a Christian Science retirement home from 1956 to 1990, and offices before reopening in 2017 as Las Alcobas. In 2021 Hyatt folded it into the Alila brand as the company's one-thousandth hotel worldwide and its first Alila in California, with Yabu Pushelberg's interiors and the Violetto restaurant now occupying the ground-floor Acacia House.
- 68 rooms
- Opened 2017
- Rooms from 306 sq ft (28 m²)
- Interiors: Yabu Pushelberg
About Alila Napa Valley
- The estate sits on 3.4 acres directly next to Beringer Vineyards, Napa Valley's oldest continuously operating winery, connected by a private footbridge.
- Spa Alila occupies a separate building designed to evoke an old barn, set behind the original 1907 farmhouse.
History
The Georgian Revival farmhouse at 1915 Main Street in St. Helena was built in 1907 as a private residence for the Vance and Anderson families, occupying a small hilltop directly adjacent to the Beringer Vineyards estate. The structure was noted at the time of its construction as one of the finest homes in Napa Valley, and its architectural ambitions were almost immediately redirected: in 1911, just four years after the house was completed, a Swiss immigrant named Herman Schultz converted it into St. Helena's first tourist hotel and summer resort, which he named St. Gothard's Inn after a landmark in his homeland.
The building's subsequent century of use reads as a compressed history of rural California institution-keeping. The hotel drew summer visitors through the prewar years, but World War I diminished travel, and by 1921 the building had converted to a hospital with thirty beds. It returned to hospitality use in 1938 as St. Gothard's Tavern, offering luxury lodging with vineyard views. In 1956 the Christian Science Church's Grandview Community acquired it as a retirement home, a use that continued until 1990. The building then passed through phases as apartments and offices before a new project broke ground in 2014 to restore the structure and build a luxury resort around it.
That project opened in 2017 as Las Alcobas, a Luxury Collection Hotel, designed by Yabu Pushelberg, whose interiors translated the Georgian farmhouse's bones into a vocabulary of restrained modern luxury. In 2021, Hyatt consolidated the property into its Alila brand, marking it as Hyatt's one-thousandth hotel worldwide and the first Alila property in California. The Violetto restaurant now occupies the ground floor of the 1907 Acacia House, and the Spa Alila, a separate building designed to evoke an old barn, sits behind the original structure on 3.4 acres that abut the Beringer estate. With Spring Mountain rising immediately to the west and the vineyards spreading beyond the property line in every direction, Alila Napa Valley remains one of the most physically rooted of all the Wine Country hotel addresses — a place whose building has been watching Napa's story unfold for more than a hundred years.
The setting
Alila Napa Valley occupies a 1907 Georgian Revival estate at 1915 Main Street in St. Helena, home to Beringer Vineyards — the valley's oldest continuously operating winery — directly next door, accessible by a private footbridge. The Main Street corridor places the property within footsteps of Michelin-starred restaurants, the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, and curated boutiques. Clif Family Winery is eleven minutes by car and Bothe-Napa Valley State Park fourteen. Founded beside the first winery Charles Krug established nearby in 1861, this adults-only retreat delivers vineyard views, deep wine-country heritage, and the concentrated culture that makes St. Helena Napa's quietly definitive luxury address.
Restaurants and bars
- Salvia Terrace & Bar — Restaurant · Californian
- Violetto — Restaurant · American
Amenities
- Spa
- Pool
- Fitness center
- Yoga
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2026)
- Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star (2026)
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