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The Marshall Post Office was originally established in 1872. The Hog Island Oyster Company is now located in what was formerly the Post Office and Marshall Store, pictured here. In the early 1980s both moved to their current locations on the south end of town. The new Post Office, which is pictured on the next page, was built in 1983.
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South of town is the Marconi Conference Center. The buildings were originally constructed by Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the radio, in 1913 to serve as a radio transmission site. Marconi's plan was to link the globe with a series of high powered wireless transmitters, of which Marshall was the primary west coast site for broadcasting to Hawaii. Marconi built a large hotel for use by his employees, and the imposing structure now sits vacant atop the hill with a spectacular view of Tomales Bay below. The Marconi site was later sold to RCA in 1919, then beginning in 1947 the property went through a succession of owners until it was bought by Synanon - dedicated to the rehabilitation of drug addicts - in 1965. The California State Parks Foundation acquired the property in 1984 with Buck Trust Funds, rehabilitated it as a conference center, and gave it to the Department of Parks and Recreation which now operates it as the non-profit Marconi Conference Center. Pictured here is Marconi's original hotel, constructed in the classic Italianate villa style.
Situated above town on the Marshall-Petaluma Road hill is the St. Helen Catholic Church, shown here. The church was built circa 1915 and has many elements of the Craftsman style.
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