Napa Earthquake Damaged Building Retains Outside Look

NAPA - An historic building badly damaged in the August 2014 earthquake that rolled through downtown Napa will retain much of its same outside look after reconstruction.

The Center Building’s interior will largely be gutted, reports the Napa Valley Register, as reconstruction takes place on the site.

Owner Brian Silver says stones from the second floor of the Brown Street building - some weighing up to 200 pounds each - will be taken off and numbered, to be used later in a five-story rebuild, according to the paper.

Napa Preservation officials on Thursday gave Silver permission to tear down most of the Center Building. In working with the Cultural Heritage Commission, Silver says the long range plan for the building may include a restaurant modeled after the oyster bar and chop house that originally occupied the site.

-image via Jim Heaphy and in the public domain