Wolf Store Adobe
The Wolf Store Adobe is the oldest standing building in Temecula. German immigrant Louis Wolf and his Chumash wife, Ramona, built a small adobe trading post next to Temecula Creek. The earliest known record of the Wolf Store in Temecula is in the San Diego tax records for 1868, but it may have been built as early as 1863. Their Wolf Store helped launch the Temecula community, serving as a saloon, livery stable, legal services, hotel, general store, stagecoach stop, post office, school and employment agency. The Store was operated by Wolf until his death in 1897. With the advent of the railroad from San Diego to San Bernardino, Temecula soon moved 3 1/2 miles northwest to what is now Old Town Temecula and business at the store dwindled. In 1905 it was sold to Walter Vail who used it for storage of livestock feed and seed as part of his Vail Ranch headquarters.
Temecula, Riverside County
Photographer: Jeanne Roberts