Hughes Building, Downtown, Fresno, CA (1887) demolished

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings; built works - commercial buildings - stores

Designers: Seadler, James M., Architect (firm); James M. Seadler (architect)

Dates: constructed 1887

3 stories

click to open gallery Exterior view of the Hughes Building, Fresno, c. 1890; from the Online Archive of California, photo from the Fresno County Library
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Tulare Street and Broadway
Downtown, Fresno, CA 93724
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Overview

The "Father of Fresno" Thomas E. Hughes (1830-1919), a real estate developer and investor, financed the erection of this three-story, Renaissance Revival Style office and retail building. In operation beginning in 1887, it was located in the heart of Fresno's central business district of the day. Positioned on the northwest corner of Tulare and I Street, the Hughes Block stood nearby to the Hughes Hotel, also owned by Thomas Hughes, situated on the southwest corner of the same intersection. (I Street was later renamed Broadway.) (SeeFresno, California, City Directory, 1898, p. 116.)

PCAD id: 21244

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