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General Joseph Hooker House
The General Joseph Hooker House
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The house, a "knockdown", or precut, house came around the horn from Sweden and was erected, in the 1850's, by Joseph Hooker, a Lieutenant Colonel with the United States Army of the Pacific stationed in Sonoma at that time. He soon sold it to Catherine Vasquez, and her husband Pedro, who lived in it for the next fifty years. In 1973 the house was given to the League by the Lynch family and was moved from its site on First Street West to its present location on leased land in El Paseo, Reconstruction was undertaken by the League with donations of materials ans labor from local residents. The house opened as the Vasquez House in 1976 and housed a library of hi8storic records and a tearoom. In 2009 the records were moved to the Heritage Center at the Maysonnave House, the tearoom was closed, and the name was changed to the General Joseph Hooker House after the man who built it and served as a general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Since reopening as a small museum about 5,000 people have visited annually. The Hooker Timeline traces the history of Sonoma and Joseph Hooker in eleven large illustrated panels permanently installed in one room at the General Joseph Hooker House. The other room in the museum offers Changing photographic essays on Sonoma history. Open Hours: Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays, 1-4p.m. |
