Editing Santa Rosa, California (section)

==Arts and culture==

{{wide image|File:Old Courthouse Square Santa Rosa.jpg|800px|Panoramic view of Old Courthouse Square}}

===Libraries===
The [[Sonoma County Library]] offers a Central Library in downtown Santa Rosa, a [[Roseland, California|Roseland]] branch on Sebastopol Road, a Northwest branch at Coddingtown Mall, and a Rincon Valley branch in east Santa Rosa. It is a member of the North Bay Cooperative Library System. The Santa Rosa Central Library, the largest branch of the Sonoma County Library system, has a Local History and Genealogy Annex behind it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sonomalibrary.org/branches/Central.html|website=Sonomalibrary.org|title=Central Santa Rosa Library|access-date=September 10, 2014}}</ref>

The Sonoma County Public Law Library<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sonomacountylawlibrary.org/|title=County Of Sonoma|website=www.sonomacountylawlibrary.org}}</ref> is at the Sonoma County Courthouse.

At [[Santa Rosa Junior College]], the four-story Frank P. Doyle Library<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.santarosa.edu/library/about/doylelibrary.html |title=The Frank P. Doyle Building |publisher=[[Santa Rosa Junior College]] |access-date=September 9, 2014}}</ref> houses the Library, Media Services, and Academic Computing Departments, as well as the college art gallery, tutorial center and Center for New Media, a multimedia production facility for SRJC faculty.

===Tourism===
[[File:SR vineyard.jpg|thumb|While the most expansive vineyards in [[Sonoma County, California|Sonoma County]] are in the [[Alexander Valley|Alexander]], [[Russian River Valley|Russian]], and [[Sonoma Valley|Sonoma]] Valleys, Santa Rosa is home to several vineyards, including this one near Fountain Grove.]]
[[File:Hotel La Rose, Downtown Santa Rosa, California,2.jpg|thumb|[[Hotel La Rose]], built in 1907, is a functioning historic hotel in downtown Santa Rosa.]]
Santa Rosa sits at the northwestern gateway to the Sonoma and Napa Valleys of California's famed Wine Country. Many [[winery|wineries]] and [[vineyard]]s are nearby, as well as the [[Russian River (California)|Russian River]] resort area, the Sonoma Coast along the Pacific Ocean, [[Jack London State Historic Park]], and the [[Sequoia sempervirens|redwood]] trees of [[Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve]].

The City Council pays the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce to operate the Santa Rosa Convention & Visitors Bureau.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visitsantarosa.com/|website=Visitsantarosa.com|title=Santa Rosa Convention and Visitors Bureau|access-date=September 10, 2014}}</ref> The Chamber's visitors center is in the city-owned old railroad depot at the bottom of Fourth Street, in Historic Railroad Square. The SRC&VB has been a California Welcome Center since 2003.

Downtown Santa Rosa, including the central Old Courthouse Square and historic Railroad Square, is an area of shopping, restaurants, nightclubs, and theaters. Downtown also includes City Hall, state and federal office buildings, many banks, and professional offices. The [[Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital]] medical center is just to the east of downtown.

Although there are co-op network atms and several credit unions, there is no shared branching for credit unions in Santa Rosa.<ref>{{cite web |title=CO-OP Network ATM Locations {{!}} CO-OP Financial Services |url=https://www.co-opfs.org/Shared-Branches-ATMs |website=www.co-opfs.org |access-date=August 29, 2020}}</ref>

The city council funds a private booster group, Santa Rosa Main Street, which lobbies the city to revitalize the traditional business district. Three new mixed-use, high-rise buildings, and a new city parking garage, are under development. (WHEN?) The council and downtown business boosters hope condos atop the new buildings will house a population to keep the area active 24 hours a day.

The nearby cities and towns of [[Bodega Bay, California|Bodega Bay]], [[Calistoga, California|Calistoga]], [[Guerneville, California|Guerneville]], [[Healdsburg, California|Healdsburg]], [[Petaluma, California|Petaluma]], [[Sebastopol, California|Sebastopol]], [[Sonoma, California|Sonoma]], and [[Windsor, California|Windsor]] are popular with tourists and readily accessible from Santa Rosa.

Railroad Square is the portion of downtown that is on the west side of [[U.S. Route 101]] and has the highest concentration of historic commercial buildings. Of particular note are the four rough-hewn stone buildings at its core, two of which are rare in that they predate the 1906 earthquake. They include the old [[Northwestern Pacific Railroad]] depot, prominently seen in the beginning and the end of the [[Alfred Hitchcock]] film ''[[Shadow of a Doubt]]'', and the still-functioning [[Hotel La Rose]], built in 1907 and registered as one of the [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]]'s [[Historic Hotels of America]]. The area contains numerous other historic buildings, such as the former [[Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad]] depot, and the Lee Bros. Building, both at the corner of 4th and Wilson Streets. Near it in the West End district are numerous other old buildings, including not only many old houses but the masonry DeTurk Winery complex, dating to the 1880s–1890s, and the DeTurk [[round barn]]. Also of note nearby is the former [[Del Monte Foods|Del Monte]] Cannery Building, built in 1894. One of the oldest surviving commercial buildings in town, it was renovated into the 6th Street Playhouse in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dramabiz.com/search.php?mode=found&id=164|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120904230517/http://www.dramabiz.com/search.php?mode=found&id=164|title=DramaBiz magazine – Search Page|url-status=usurped<!-- Bot generated title -->|archivedate=September 4, 2012}}</ref>

===Local attractions===
[[File:Charles schulz museum.jpg|thumb|The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center on the corner of West Steele Lane and Hardies Lane, next to Snoopy's Home Ice skating rink]]
[[File:Prince Memorial Greenway, Downtown Santa Rosa.jpg|thumb|Prince Memorial Greenway, a bicycle and pedestrian path through downtown Santa Rosa]]
[[File:CitySantaRosa1.jpg|right|thumb|''City of Santa Rosa'', an [[Douglas A-26 Invader|A-26 Invader attack bomber]] built in 1944]]

* Carrillo Adobe. Built in 1837 for Dona Maria Ignacia Lopez de Carrillo, General Mariano Vallejo's mother-in-law, the Carrillo Adobe was the first home on the site of the future Santa Rosa. The remains of the Carrillo home rest behind a cyclone fence off Montgomery Drive, on property owned by the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California]], adjacent to its Cathedral of St. Eugene.
* [[Luther Burbank Home and Gardens]]
* [[Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center]]
* [[Redwood Empire Ice Arena]] ("Snoopy's Home Ice")
* [[Safari West]] wildlife preserve is located northwest Santa Rosa. As of 2017, Safari West had over 1,000 animals of approximately 98 animal species.<ref name=post>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/19/safari-west-african-nature-preserve-threatened-cal/|newspaper=The Washington Times|title=Safari West, African nature preserve threatened by California wildfires, weathers the disaster|author=Laura Kelly|date=October 19, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Sonoma County Museum|Museum of Sonoma County]]
* [[Doyle Community Park]]
* [[Spring Lake Regional Park]]
* [[Trione-Annadel State Park]]
* Railroad Square. With the highest concentration of historic commercial buildings in Santa Rosa, this portion of downtown is popular with both tourists and locals.
* Historic residential neighborhoods. Although most of Santa Rosa's commercial buildings were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, almost all of its numerous houses survived and most have survived to this day. As a result, Santa Rosa has a number of old neighborhoods in and around downtown, several historically designated. These contain numerous old homes, including many [[Victorian era|Victorians]]. Most of these are on quiet, often tree-lined streets. An example of one of these houses would be the [[McDonald Mansion]], near downtown.
* The annual [[Luther Burbank Rose Parade and Festival]]
* California Indian Museum and Cultural Center
* The [[Pacific Coast Air Museum]] is located on the southeast corner of the [[Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport]], next to the airplane hangar used in the 1963 [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]] all-star comedy movie ''[[It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]''.

===Performing and visual arts===
[[File:Old Santa Rosa Post Office, Downtown Santa Rosa,2.jpg|thumb|[[Sonoma County Museum|Museum of Sonoma County]] on 7th St. in downtown Santa Rosa. Completed in 1910, it was originally the Post Office and Federal Building.]]
The [[performing arts]] in Santa Rosa are represented by [[Luther Burbank Center for the Arts]], the Sonoma County Philharmonic, the Summer Repertory Theatre, the Santa Rosa Symphony, and the 6th Street Playhouse. Santa Rosa is the home of the North Bay Theater Group, an alliance of some 40 theater companies, theater departments and individual performance companies from five North Bay counties.

The Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (LBC) is a performance venue, that opened in 1981.

The Sonoma County Philharmonic performs at the Santa Rosa High School Performing Arts Auditorium. It is a 65-member orchestra made up of professional-level local musicians who volunteer their time.

The Santa Rosa Symphony, a regional orchestra founded in 1928,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.srsymphony.org/|title=Santa Rosa Symphony presents its 2023-2024 Season with Francesco Lecce-Chong, Music Director and Conductor|website=www.srsymphony.org}}</ref><ref>[http://www.americanorchestras.org/images/stories/conducting_artistic/2012-2013_ASCAP_Winners.pdf "2012-2013 ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming"], League of American Orchestras, retrieved October 11, 2020.</ref> performs at the Green Music Center in [[Rohnert Park]], a new venue with traditional "shoebox" acoustics. The Symphony's Institute for Music Education supports four youth ensembles and provides classical music education to students across Sonoma County, serving 30,000 elementary students per year. Francesco Lecce-Chong has served as music director since 2018, replacing [[Bruno Ferrandis]], who held the post for twelve years.<ref>Joshua Kosman, [https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/its-a-new-chapter-for-the-santa-rosa-symphony "Datebook: It’s a new chapter for the Santa Rosa Symphony"], ''San Francisco Chronicle'', [September 21, 2018], October 4, 2018.</ref>

The [[visual arts]] are represented by the [[Sonoma County Museum|Museum of Sonoma County]] and numerous independent art galleries.

In 2020, during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]], Jessica Rasmussen, Anna Wiziarde, and Julian Billotte set up a mailbox painted gold with [[Dutch metal]], for queries concerning the past or the future to be collected and answered by the "United States Portal Service" as part of the city's Open & Out project, with the aims of supporting the US Post Office and alleviating loneliness.<ref>Lily Janiak, [https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/a-golden-mailbox-in-santa-rosa-accepts-letters-to-the-past-and-future-and-it-sends-responses "Datebook: A golden mailbox in Santa Rosa accepts letters to the past and future, and it sends responses"], ''San Francisco Chronicle'', October 9, 2020.</ref>