PCAD - Fresno County Orphanage, Fresno, CA

Structure Type: built works - public buildings - health and welfare buildings

Exterior view of the Fresno County Orphanage, near Fresno, c. 1915; from Fresno "The City of Promise:" Organized Labor: The Keystone in the City's Gate (Fresno, CA: The Fresno Labor News, 1915). n.p.

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Ventura Street
Fresno, CA

The Fresno, California, City Directory, 1898, (p. 95), indicated that the Fresno County Orphanage was located "one mile east of city on Ventura."

Overview

The Fresno County Orphanage was a two-story, Mission Revival Style building with a recessed porch wrapping around its first floor. It had the familiar Mission Revival vocabulary elements, apparently thick, stucco-faced walls, arched openings and scalloped, parapeted gables.

PCAD id: 21262

Fresno County Orphanage, Fresno, CA demolished