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August10,2023
FRESNO CITY COUN'Ct(.
Supplement Packet
ITEM(S)
10:25 A.M. (ID 23-1161)
Hearing to consider adoption of resolutions related to the designation of properties to the Local Register of Historic Resources and adoption of findings necessary to support recommendation pursuant to FMC 12-1609
1. ***RESOLUTION - A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Fresno, California, designating the Dr. Earl R. Meyers Sr. & Mrs. Mattie B. Meyers Fresno Street Medical Arts Center located at 444 Fresno Street, Fresno California to the Local Register of Historic Resources (Council District 3) (Subject to Mayor's veto).
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Fresno-Klette Medical Arts
Center - Nomination
• Nomination submitted to Alicia Gonzales
by Dr. David Marshall
• Property owner authorization has been
received
• Extensive historical context provided
City of Fresno
Dr. Earl
Randolph
Meyers
• Known as the “Father of Black
Medicine” in West Fresno California
History
• Attended the Columbia School, Edison
High School, Fresno High School and
Fresno State College
• Practiced medicine in West Fresno for
nearly three decades from 1946 to
1975
• Planned and built a comprehensive
medical center in 1957 at Fresno and
Klette
• Recruited other Black physicians,
medical specialists and pharmacists to
Fresno
City of Fresno
Dr. Earl Randolph Meyers
City of Fresno
Fresno-Klette Medical Arts
Center
• Dr Meyers sought out reknowned local
architectural firm to design complex
• Designed by David Horn of Horn & Mortland,
also known for many civic buildings:
– Sunshine School for the Cerebral Palsied (now
Jefferson Elementary School)
– Holland Elementary School
– Fresno Tuberculosis Hospital
– Fresno Fire House No. 4
City of Fresno
444 Fresno St North Elevation
City of Fresno
444 Fresno St East Elevation
City of Fresno
444 Fresno St
City of Fresno
Fresno-
Klette
Medical
Arts
Center -
Eligibility
HISTORIC RESOURCES: Any building, structure, object or site may be designated as an Historic Resource if it is found by the Commission and Council to meet the following criteria:
(1) It has been in existence more than fifty years and it possesses aspects of integrity to convey its significance based upon location, design, setting, materials,
workmanship, feeling or association, and:
(i) It is associated with events that have made a
significant contribution to the broad patterns of our
history; or
– Significance to the West Fresno Community
(ii) It is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or
– Association with Dr. Earl R. Meyers,
"Fresno's Father of Black Medicine,"
(iii) It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period or method of construction, or represents the
work of a master, or possesses high artistic values;
or
– Example of the work of Horn & Mortland,
whose firm played a significant role in the
development of Mid-Century Modern
architecture in Fresno
– Although now vacant the building's integrity
to its period of significance of 1959-1970
remains high.
(iv) It has yielded or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.
City of Fresno
Historic Preservation
Recommendation
• Hearing on nomination came before the
Historic Preservation Commission on
September 26, 2022
• Noticed 2,000 feet
• Commission unanimously voted in favor of
recommending nomination to City Council
City of Fresno
Staff Recommendation
The Historic Preservation Commission recommends that
the City Council adopt the attached Resolutions
designating the Dr. Earl R. Meyers Sr. & Mrs. Mattie B.
Meyers Fresno Street Medical Arts Center located at 444 Fresno Street (APN 46725501) to the Local Register of
Historic Resources pursuant to Fresno Municipal Code 12- 1607 and 12-1609.
City of Fresno