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. - See more at: http://sonomaleague.org/page62.html#sthash.rLKQpiuG.dpuf