Last updated: 12/11/2011
71A Main Street
Sutter Creek, CA 95685
Take a step back in time at the Monteverde General Store Museum and experience a little slice of “frontier life.” John Monteverde and members of his family ran the emporium from 1898 to 1971 and you can see the authentic hardware, groceries, clothing, pharmaceuticals, candy, and miner supplies such as boots, flashlights, and tools that the Monteverde’s sold to Sutter Creek locals.
The J. Monteverde General Store Museum is typical of old country stores at the turn of the century. Over its counters and from its shed – now the home to the Sutter Creek Visitor’s Center and Amador Arts Council – the Monteverde family offered for sale all manner and description of merchandise and came to serve as a meeting place for miners, housewives and the town children.
John Monteverde and his son John opened their general store in August 1898 and it changed little from its early days until Rose Monteverde, the youngest of seven children, put a hand written sign in the window on 27 October 1971 stating, “This store will be closed for a few days.” Rose never returned to the store and bequeathed it to the town of Sutter Creek in 1978, on the condition that it be converted to a museum or a library. As an homage to the frontier spirit of the Sutter Creek community, town members decided to preserve the store almost exactly as Rose Monteverde had left it.
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