Behlow Building News Today

One wintry evening in 1932 downtown Napa was the scene of a fearsome fire. This multiple alarm blaze consumed the Behlow Building, once located along Brown, First and Second streets,

Jan 8, 2021 Downtown Napa was a different place in the early 1970s before the city’s urban renewal program swung into high gear and the county cleared a swath of land south of Third Street for its new government/courts complex. It was older, less prosperous, without tourists. The city commissioned photos of the “before,” including aerial shots that capture a riverfront almost unidentifiable to someone who knows only today’s landscape. The Napa River was boxed in with stores ...