Stantec
887 Fulton Street (Former
Berkeley’s Building) Section 106
Inventory and Evaluation Report
Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
Prepared for:
City of Fresno under U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Brownfields Funding
Prepared by:
Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
Date:
April 16, 2026
Project/File:
203724380
887 Fulton Street (Former Berkeley’s Building) Section 106 Inventory and Evaluation Report Disclaimer
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Alana Vidmar
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Rebecca Riggs
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887 Fulton Street (Former Berkeley’s Building) Section 106 Inventory and Evaluation Report Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Executive Summary ...................................................................................................................................... iii Acronyms / Abbreviations............................................................................................................................ vi 1 Project Location and Undertaking Description ............................................................................. 7
1.1 Regulatory Context ............................................................................................................................. 8
1.1.1 National Historic Preservation Act ...................................................................................................... 8 2 Cultural Context ................................................................................................................................ 9
2.1 Prehistoric Context.............................................................................................................................. 9
2.2 Ethnographic Context........................................................................................................................ 10
2.3 Historic Overview .............................................................................................................................. 11 3 Area of Potential Effects................................................................................................................. 15 4 Methods and Findings .................................................................................................................... 16
4.1 SSJVIC Records Search and Desktop Review Results ................................................................... 16
4.2 Native American Consultation........................................................................................................... 18
4.3 Letters to Interested Parties and Public Outreach ............................................................................ 19
4.4 Built Environment Field Survey ......................................................................................................... 19 5 Evaluation of Identified Resources ............................................................................................... 27
5.1 Berkeley Building .............................................................................................................................. 28 6 Effects of the Undertaking ............................................................................................................. 30 7 Bibliography .................................................................................................................................... 31 List of Tables
Table 1. Previously Recorded Resources within the APE from the SSJVIC Records Search ...................... 16 Table 2. Previous Studies within or Immediately Adjacent to the APE .......................................................... 17 Table 3. Previous Studies within a 0.25-Mile Buffer of the APE .................................................................... 17 Table 4. Previously Recorded Resources within the APE from Desktop Research ...................................... 18 Table 5. Results of Tribal Consultation .......................................................................................................... 19 List of Figures
Figure 1. Berkeley’s department store, 1961. ................................................................................................ 14 Figure 5. 887 Fulton Street, at left, on the square at the eastern entrance of Chukchansi Park, facing Figure 10. Detail of the cantilevered concrete canopy on the north façade of the building, facing northeast Figure 12. Detail of the cladding materials at the west corner of 887 Fulton Street, facing east (Stantec, Figure 2. Overview of 887 Fulton Street from Fulton Street, facing south (Stantec, 2025). ......................... 21 Figure 3. Fulton Street façade of 887 Fulton Street, facing northwest (Stantec, 2025). ............................... 21 Figure 4. Fulton Street façade of 887 Fulton Street, facing southwest (Stantec, 2025). ............................... 22 southwest (Stantec, 2025). ............................................................................................................................ 22 Figure 6. North façade of 887 Fulton Street, facing south (Stantec, 2025). .................................................. 23 Figure 7. Detail of north corner of 887 Fulton Street, facing south (Stantec, 2025). ..................................... 23 Figure 8. North façade of 887 Fulton Street, facing east (Stantec, 2025). .................................................... 24 Figure 9. The north façade entrance to the building, at right, facing southeast (Stantec, 2025)................... 24 (Stantec, 2025)............................................................................................................................................... 25 Figure 11. West corner of 887 Fulton Street, facing east (Stantec, 2025). ................................................... 25 2025). ............................................................................................................................................................. 26 Figure 13. Rear of 887 Fulton Street on Homerun Alley, at left, facing north (Stantec, 2025). ..................... 26 Figure 14. Entrance to 887 Fulton Street on Homerun Alley, facing east (Stantec, 2025)............................ 27 List of Appendices
Appendix A Project Map
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Appendix B Previous Documentation
Appendix C Records Search Results
Appendix D Resources Within 0.25 Miles of the Area of Potential Effects Appendix E Department of Parks and Recreation 523 Series Form Project: 203724380 ii
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887 Fulton Street (Former Berkeley’s Building) Section 106 Inventory and Evaluation Report Executive Summary
Executive Summary
Stantec Consulting Services Inc. (Stantec) conducted this cultural resource assessment on behalf of the City of Fresno (City) as a required component of a Fiscal Year 2025 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) grant awarded to the City for the removal of hazardous substances in the City. This assessment is focused on the Former Berkeley’s Building located at 887 Fulton Street in Fresno, California (subject property). The proposed activities include mold abatement activities, abatement and removal of regulated building materials (asbestos-containing materials [ACM] and lead- based paint [LBP]), removal and replacement of the interior drop ceiling, and removal and replacement of the building’s roof.
In 2025, the EPA awarded a Brownfields RLF grant to the City for use on contaminated properties within an area consisting of Downtown and Southwest Fresno neighborhoods (Target Area). The subject property at 887 Fulton Street was designated to receive a portion of the grant money for abatement of hazardous materials (hereinafter referred to as the “Project”). The award of a Brownfields grant constitutes a federal undertaking as defined in 36 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] 800.16(y). Therefore, the Project requires compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA), as amended. In accordance with relevant federal guidelines, this report identifies and documents potential historic properties within the Project’s Area of Potential Effects (APE), evaluates the resources for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and California Register of Historical Resources (CRHR), and assesses the Project’s potential to result in adverse effects on historic properties.
The Project’s APE consists of the footprint of one building at 887 Fulton Street that would be subject to permanent direct or indirect effects from the implementation of the Project (see Appendix A for APE delineation). Identification efforts included a records search at the Southern San Joaquin Valley Information Center (SSJVIC) of the California Historical Resources Information System (CHRIS) in Bakersfield, California, Sacred Lands files maintained by the Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), research at the San Joaquin Valley Heritage & Genealogy Center in the Fresno County Public Library , and desktop research with a built environment field survey of the Project APE. The current Project proposes no ground disturbance within the developed Project parcel, and an archaeological pedestrian survey was considered unnecessary. The records search included review of records for the entire APE and a surrounding radius of
0.25 miles.
The records search completed at the SSJVIC identified one previously recorded cultural resource, the Town of Fresno, below the vertical extent of the Project APE (see Table 1). The Town of Fresno was recommended eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as an archaeological Project: 203724380 iii
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historic district.1 Desktop research identified that the building at 887 Fulton Street was previously surveyed and recorded in 2012 as part of the Historical Resources Evaluation Report (HRER) for the Fulton Mall Reconstruction Project, City of Fresno, California, Federal Project Number TCSPL- 5060(263) by Historic Resources Group. The report recommended the subject property eligible for local designation and not eligible for listing in the NRHP. Research at the San Joaquin Valley Heritage & Genealogy Center in the Fresno County Public Library indicated that in 2013, Fulton Mall was evaluated for listing in the NRHP as potential historic district. The evaluation of the Fulton Mall Historic District did not receive State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) concurrence. For the purposes of the Project, the subject property was revisited, surveyed, and evaluated as an individual property to comply with the Section 106 process.
Two Stantec architectural historians surveyed one built resource within the Project APE within Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN) 468-282-21T. The surveyed building is vacant. The parcel owner is listed as the Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency who has a Disposition and Development Agreement with the Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation. Based on the findings of this report and previous reports on the building, this study recommends the building at 887 Fulton Street is not individually eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR under any criteria. For the purposes of this undertaking only, the Fulton Mall Historic District is assumed eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR, and the subject property is assumed eligible as a contributor of that district. An overall finding of No Adverse Effect is appropriate for the proposed Project.
Preparer Qualifications
This report was prepared by Stantec personnel who meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for Professional Qualifications in Archaeology, Architectural History, and History (as defined in 36 CFR Part 61).
Stantec architectural historian Alana Vidmar received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Community, Environment, and Planning from the University of Washington, and a Master of Science degree in Conservation of Historic Buildings from the University of Bath. She meets the Secretary of the Interior’s professional qualifications for Architectural History and History. She supports clients in compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (NHPA), National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) evaluations, and various state historic preservation laws and regulations. Her skills include conducting background reviews, built-environment documentation, preparing historic context statements, various states’ historic property inventory forms, and NRHP nomination forms.
Stantec senior associate architectural historian Rebecca Riggs has 10 years of experience in architectural history and cultural resource management, including in-depth research knowledge and evaluation of historical buildings, structures, and landscapes and regulatory compliance relating to the built environment. 1 Natalie Lawson, Jennifer Moritz, and David Oliver, California Department of Parks and Recreation Series 523 Form for Town of Fresno (P-10-007206), on file at SSJVIC, 2020.
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She received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Monmouth College and a Master of Arts in Public History from California State University, Sacramento. She has served as architectural historian on several documentation projects, including Section 106 and 110 of the NHPA, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Ms. Riggs has extensive experience with development, research, field survey and recordation, report documentation, mitigation development and implementation, and agency review of projects. She meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualification Standards for Historic Preservation in Architectural History and History.
Stantec architectural historian Madeline Josa has experience working on several types of documentation projects, including Section 106 of the NHPA, NEPA, and CEQA, with resources ranging from hydroelectric infrastructure to historic landscapes. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master of Studies degree in Women’s, Gender, and Queer History from the University of Oxford. She also has experience in the field doing cultural resource and built environ ment surveys. Ms. Josa is particularly skilled in research development and technical writing, as well as copyediting. She meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualification Standards for Historic Preservation in History.
Stantec archaeologist Dr. Jenna Santy contributed to this report. Dr. Santy has a Ph.D. in Anthropology- Archaeology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has more than 10 years of experience in cultural resource management and meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Archaeology.
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887 Fulton Street (Former Berkeley’s Building) Section 106 Inventory and Evaluation Report Acronyms / Abbreviations
Acronyms / Abbreviations
Acronym / Abbreviation Full Name
ACHP Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
ACM asbestos-containing materials
APE Area of Potential Effects
APN Assessor’s Parcel Number
BERD California Office of Historic Preservation Built Environment Resources Database CEQA California Environmental Quality Act
City City of Fresno
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CHRIS California Historical Resources Information System CRHR California Register of Historical Resources
DPR California Department of Parks and Recreation
EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
GLO General Land Office
HVAC heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
LBP lead-based paint
NAHC Native American Heritage Commission
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
NHPA National Historic Preservation Act
NRHP National Register of Historic Places
SHPO State Historic Preservation Office(r)
SPRR Southern Pacific Railroad
SSJVIC Southern San Joaquin Valley Information Center
Stantec Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
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1 887 Fulton Street (Former Berkeley’s Building) Section 106 Inventory and Evaluation Report Project Location and Undertaking Description
Project Location and Undertaking Description
Stantec Consulting Services Inc. (Stantec) conducted this cultural resource assessment on behalf of the City of Fresno (City). The City proposes utilizing a Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund grant, the undertaking, to complete environmental cleanup activities at 887 Fulton Street (Assessor’s Parcel Number [APN] 468-282-21T), historically known as the Berkeley’s Building (see Appendix A). The Project activities would include mold abatement activities, abatement of asbestos-containing materials (ACM) and lead- based paint (LBP) as needed, removal of the interior ceiling, restoration of the interior and exterior including construction of a new drop ceiling, and reparation or replacement of the roof.
The building at 887 Fulton Street opened in 1961 as Berkeley’s department store. The store was built during a period of post-war commercial redevelopment in Downtown Fresno between 1945 and 1970. The redevelopment included renovation of older buildings with new façades, and construction of new buildings in Modern and Mid-Century Modern architectural styles. Berkeley’s occupied another building in downtown Fresno and relocated to the new building after it was constructed. The owner and president of Berkeley’s, Gilbert C. Berkeley, was in favor of the redevelopment of downtown Fresno, and relocated his store there as a gesture of his support of the effort.
2 The purpose of the proposed Project is to facilitate hazardous cleanup activities and restorati on of the subject property. The Project would specifically include:
1. Site preparation by establishing security fencing, drop boxes, decontamination areas, appropriate containment, barrier, and air-filtration systems and other work area preparations as necessary.
2. Repairing and/or replacing the roof as necessary to prevent further moisture intrusion through the roof on a long-term basis and enable mold abatement work on the interior of the building to be completed without risk of reoccurrence.
3. Establishing appropriate containment, barrier, and air-filtration systems as necessary for workers.
4. Removal of the interior drop ceilings.
5. Restoring the building, which may include repairing or rerouting any plumbing or water lines located in areas above the ceiling that are impacted by the ACM removal process and roof replacement. This is a requirement to restore the building envelope post abatement as these repaired utility lines would be located within the roofing/ceiling materials to service roofing equipment (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning [HVAC], emergency sprinkler systems, and water supply lines) as necessitated by a building restoration plan. 2 Historic Resources Group, California Department of Parks and Recreation 523 Series Form for 887 Fulton Mall, on file at Fresno County Library (Fresno, 2012).
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6. Abating ACM and LBP in other areas of the building as needed
7. Constructing a new drop ceiling.
8. Offsite transportation and disposal of hazardous building materials.
9. Removal of temporary fencing and general subject property cleanup.
The proposed Project would not include ground-disturbing activities.
1.1 Regulatory Context
1.1.1 National Historic Preservation Act
In 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund grant to the City of Fresno for use on contaminated properties in the City of Fresno. The subject property at 887 Fulton Street was designated to receive a portion of the grant money. The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, as amended, requires federal agencies or those they fund or permit to consider the effects of their actions on historic properties. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservati on (ACHP) Section 106 implementing regulations (36 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] Section 800) define “historic properties” as follows:
Any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object included in, or eligible for inclusion in, the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) maintained by the Secretary of the Interior. This term includes artifacts, records, and remains that are related to and located within such properties. The term includes properties of traditional religious and cultural importance to an Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization that meet the National Register criteria (36 CFR Part 800.16[I]).
To determine whether an undertaking could affect NRHP-eligible properties, cultural resources, including archaeological, ethnographical, and architectural properties, must be inventoried and evaluated for listing in the NRHP. For a property to be considered for inclusion in the NRHP, it must normally be at least 50 years old and meet the criteria for evaluation set forth in 36 CFR Part 60.4, as follows:
A) That are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; or
B) That are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or C) That embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or that represent the work of a master or that possess high artistic values or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or D) That have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.
As described above, a resource must possess integrity in addition to historical significance. The aforementioned seven aspects are defined as follows:
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Location: the place where the historic property was constructed or the place where the historic event took place.
Design: the composition of elements that constitute the form, plan, space, structure, and style of a property.
Setting: the physical environment of a historic property that illustrates the character of the place.
Materials: the physical elements combined in a particular pattern or configuration.
Workmanship: the physical evidence of the crafts of a particular culture or people during any given period of history.
Feeling: the quality that a historic property has in evoking the aesthetic or historic sense of a past period of time.
Association: the direct link between a property and the event or person for which the property is significant.
NRHP analysis is based upon all pertinent cultural resources guidance and best practices including that of 36 CFR Part 800 and technical bulletins including National Register Bulletin 15: How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation.
3 2 Cultural Context
2.1 Prehistoric Context
Human occupation in the region likely began as early as 13,000 years ago during the initial stages of the Holocene when Clovis big-game hunters presumably inhabited the area. Subsequent periods of soil erosion and deposition as well as ground disturbance from intensive agriculture, however, have led to the destruction of many of the earliest cultural sites in the Central Valley. This has had the effect of severely limiting prehistoric archaeological research in the Fresno area. 4 Based on evidence that is available, prehistory in the valley is generally divided into five periods: Paleo- Indian (11,550 to 8550 BC), Lower Archaic (8550 to 5550 BC), Middle Archaic (5550 to 550 BC), Upper 3 U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register Bulletin 15: How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation (2022).
4 J. S. Rosenthal, G. G. White, and M. Q. Sutton, Chapter 10: The Central Valley. In California Prehistory:
Colonization, Culture, and Complexity, Terry L. Jones and Kathryn A. Klar, editors (AltaMira Press, Lantham, Maryland, 2007), 147–163.
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Archaic (550 BC to AD 1000), and Emergent (AD 1000 to AD 150). 5 In broad terms, the Lower Archaic period is characterized by big-game hunting. The Middle Archaic is characterized by a shift in subsistence strategy to a diversified diet of plant and animal resources, including fish. The Upper Archaic saw an increase in the consumption of storable staple plant foods, such as acorn, evidenced by the relatively higher numbers of seed-grinding implements in typical artifact assemblages from this period. The Emergent period dates from approximately AD 1000 to the historic period and includes ethnographically recorded Yokuts habitation of the area.
6 Changes in the types and distribution shell beads and projectile points observed during this period perhaps reflect the cultural complexity documented among the Southern Valley Yokuts at the time of European contact. For a more complete discussion of the region’s prehistoric context, see Rosenthal et al. 2007.
2.2 Ethnographic Context
The Project is in the traditional tribal territory of the Southern Valley Yokuts. 7 The Southern Valley Yokuts inhabited the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley from the lower Kings River near Fresno to the Tehachapi Mountains south of Kern Lake.
8 The nearest ethnographic village site, Musahau, is 14. 8 miles east.9 Prehistoric activity focused on the vast swamps adjacent to water courses in the area, including Buena Vista, Tulare, and Kern Lakes and the Kings, Kaweah, Tule, and Kern Rivers. Indigenous peoples relied heavily on the animal and plant resources supported by these features. Parts of Southern Valley Yokuts territory not directly supplied by rivers were relatively dry, receiving only five to ten inches of rain annually with summer temperatures frequently exceeding 100 degrees. 10 Like many other California indigenous groups, the Southern Valley Yokuts relied on a combination of hunting, fishing, and gathering. Lake trout, chub, perch, and suckers were fished nearly year -round with nets set from shore or dragged by tule boats. Snares were used to trap geese, ducks, and other waterfowl.
Mussels and other shellfish were collected and steamed on tule mats. Seeds and wild roots, including tule roots, were also gathered and consumed.11
The Southern Valley Yokuts were able to occupy village sites on a semi-permanent basis due to the abundance of resources near lakes and rivers. Tule mats over wooden frameworks formed the village 5 Rosenthal et al., 147–163; William J. Wallace, “Southern Valley Yokuts,” In California, edited by Robert F.
Heizer, Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 8, William C. Sturtevant, general editor (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1978), 448–461; M. J. Moratto, California Archaeology (Academic Press, New York, New York, 1984).
6 Rosenthal et al., 147–163.
7 Alfred Kroeber, Handbook of the Indians of California (University of California Publications, Dover Publications, New York, 1925; 1964 reprint); Wallace, 448–461. 8 Wallace, 448–461.
9 Wallace, 448, Figure 1b.
10 Wallace, 448–461.
11 Wallace, 448–461.
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residences. Each community would also have a communal sweathouse but did not typically have dance houses.12
2.3 Historic Overview
The first Europeans to traverse the region were Spanish explorers led by Gabriel Moraga in 1805 and 1806.
They followed two rivers through the valley and named them the Kings River and the San Joaquin River. 13 This was the first of several Spanish explorations of the San Joaquin Valley in the early nineteenth century and they were followed in 1826 by the first Euro-American explorer to the area, Jedediah Smith. Despite these early explorations, settlement in the area did not occur until after the discovery of gold in California in 1848.
14 Even after California achieved statehood in 1850, present-day Fresno County was largely devoid of Euro- American settlement. The gold rush resulted in a population boom in other parts of the state, turning small outposts and rudimentary towns into the thriving cities like San Francisco, Sacramento, and Stockton.
Those who emigrated to California traveled to the foothills in search of gold and largely ignored any potential the San Joaquin Valley may have held. Early wagon roads utilized routes established by local indigenous populations that extended along the foothills and branched into the mountains. The main route, known as the Stockton-Los Angeles Road, was surveyed and established in 1850 by Lieutenant George Derby. The road ran north-south between the namesake cities, but the San Joaquin Valley remained generally undeveloped.
15 To support these early trails, various improvements were made, and amenities established at points along the route. At this time, the San Joaquin Valley had an expansive wetlands system fed by unchecked rivers that flowed from the mountains running into large bodies of water like the Tulare and Kern lakes, which are dry in modern-day. In the early 1850s, to facilitate the crossing of these rivers, several ferries were established along the stage route. Hotels, general stores, and other businesses followed, creating the foundations of early townsites in the region.
16 At the time of statehood in 1850, present-day Fresno County was divided between Mariposa, Merced and Tulare Counties. Following the decline of the gold rush, miners made their way down into the San Joaquin Valley and settled along established stage routes and near ferry crossings along the Kings and San Joaquin Rivers. One of the first settlements in present-day Fresno County was Rootville, founded in 1851.
By 1854, it was renamed Millerton and when Fresno County was formed in 1856, it became the first county 12 Wallace, 448–461.
13 Douglas E. Kyle, ed., Historic Spots in California (Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, California, 2002),
88. 14 Kyle, 89.
15 California High-Speed Rail Authority, “California High-Speed Train Project EIR/EIS Historic Property Survey Report: Fresno to Bakersfield Section,” 2014, 7-1. 16 California High-Speed Rail Authority, 7-2.
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seat. It remained the county seat until 1874, when many of the residents abandoned the town and relocated to the newly founded town of Fresno, which was subsequently named the county seat .17 The Southern Pacific Railroad (SPRR) began quickly laying tracks through the San Joaquin Valley in 1870, and Fresno was founded as a station along the tracks. SPRR purchased the land for the town from the German Syndicate, and a three-square mile area was surveyed and plotted as a town with space for a train station and a courthouse in 1872. After the completion of the railroad through the new town, Fresno quickly grew to include a general store, hotel, restaurants, and a post office. 18 As more people moved to the area,
the Fresno Canal and Irrigation Company completed construction on a series of large irrigations canals to facilitate the use of the arid land for agriculture. The predominant crops included grapes, cotton, figs, and citrus fruits. Fresno was incorporated in 1885 and the success of agriculture in the area continued the growth of the population of Fresno into the turn of the twentieth century. 19 The agricultural industry that surrounded Fresno led to the construction of processing plants and manufacturing facilities for agricultural goods, including fruits, grains, and livestock . Fresno’s proximity to the railroad fueled the development of industrial areas in southern Fresno in the early twentieth century . 20 After World War I, the boundaries of the city were expanded to the north and east to accommodate the construction of new residential neighborhoods. Growth of the local economy and population slowed during the Great Depression, but experienced an uptick between 1940 and 1950, when the population of Fresno increased by 30,000.21 Development in Fresno continued to increase in the Post-War period. The move and expansion of the Golden State Highway in 1948 provided an industrial connection between the nearby railroad and the new freeway and spurred the construction of new industrial buildings in southern Fresno .22 Fulton Mall Development
In the 1960s and 1970s, following World War II and its immediate aftermath, there was a movement across the United States to revitalize and redevelop the downtown centers of cities and towns. The City of Fresno was an early adopter of this movement, and its downtown revitalization plan served as a model for other cities across the United States.
23 Beginning in 1958, business owners in downtown Fresno were dismayed by dwindling sales, and an extensive economic study proved their fears were not unfounded. As a result, the City of Fresno decided to create a comprehensive plan to revitalize the entire Central Business District.24 The plan, known as the Fresno Plan, was primarily developed by Victor Gruen and Associates, 17 Page & Turnbull, Inc., “Historic Properties Survey Report for South Stadium Project Area, Phase I Area, Fresno California,” Prepared for Forest City Residential West, Inc., 2008, 5. 18 Kyle, 92.
19 Page & Turnbull, Inc., 7.
20 California High-Speed Rail Authority, 7-8.
21 Page & Turnbull, Inc., 9.
22 California High-Speed Rail Authority, 7-9.
23 RHAA Landscape Architecture, “Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS) Fulton Mall, Fresno, California,” prepared for City of Fresno and California Department of Transportation, District 6, 2015. 24 Western City Magazine, “Fresno’s Mall In The Making,” August, 1964.
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and included a six-block outdoor pedestrian mall known as Fulton Mall. The Fulton Mall was designed in tandem with Garrett Eckbo, championed as a pioneer in modernist landscape design. 25 Victor Gruen and Associates released an illustrated comprehensive plan for the Fulton Mall in January 1960 for the City of Fresno, and construction to redesign traffic patterns began within a few months. 26 Shortly after, businesses began moving into the buildings along Fulton Mall as early as 1961, including the Berkeley ’s department store to 887 Fulton Street.27 Construction of the pedestrian mall portion of the project began in the beginning of 1964 and was completed later that same year. The Fulton Mall officially opened to the public on September 1, 1964, and was hailed as an exemplary effort in urban renewal and downtown revitalization.
28 The Fulton Mall received numerous design awards and honors from architecture institutes and federal government departments. Due to its early success in the nationwide trend of downtown city revitalization, representatives from other American cities traveled to Fresno to see and learn from the Fulton Mall’s design and development. The Fulton Mall was successful and popular for several years following its construction but began to decline as early as the beginning of the 1970s. 29 Further development and expansion of the area surrounding the mall failed to occur in the 1970s, resulting in a lack of economic growth of the Fulton Mall. In addition, a new indoor shopping mall, called Fashion Fair, opened in north Fresno in 1970. The opening of the indoor mall did not benefit the development of the Fulton Mall. Many retailers chose to move away from the downtown Fulton Mall and move towards the suburban Fashion Fair, resulting in most of the original Fulton Mall retailers being gone by the early 1980s.
The Fulton Mall continued to decline over the course of the 1980s. 30 In 2014, the Fresno City Council voted to reopen Fulton Street to automobile traffic in an effort to again revitalize the Fulton Mall. The project was undertaken in 2016 to upgrade sidewalks, provide street parking, install new streetlights and traffic signals, and install wayfinding signage. The project also restored and replaced street art along Fulton Street and improved landscaping. Fulton Street re-opened in October 2017.
31 Efforts to bring businesses and residential development to Downtown Fresno have been ongoing. 32 25 Page & Turnbull, Inc.
26 “Downtown Fresno (Fulton Corridor) Historic Resources Survey,” prepared for the City of Fresno, 2011; Western City Magazine, “Fresno’s Mall In The Making.”
27 “Downtown Fresno (Fulton Corridor) Historic Resources Survey”; Page & Turnbull, Inc., “Historic Properties Survey Report.”
28 Page & Turnbull, Inc., “Historic Properties Survey Report.” 29 Page & Turnbull, Inc., “Historic Properties Survey Report.” 30 Page & Turnbull, Inc., “Historic Properties Survey Report.” 31 City of Fresno, “City of Fresno Celebrates the Grand Re-opening of Fulton Street,” 2017, https://www.fresno.gov/news/city-of-fresno-celebrates-the-grand-re-opening-of-fulton-street/. 32 Marek Warszawski, “Revitalization of downtown Fresno stuck in second gear. What’s the hold up?,” Fresno Bee, July 25, 2025, https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/marek- warszawski/article311282595.html.
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Property History
The property at 887 Fulton Street was constructed in 1961 (Figure 1). The building was designed by Fresno architect Alastair Simpson. The interior was designed by Los Angeles firm Burke, Kober and Nicolais, and the contractor was the Harris Construction Company. The total cost of the building was $1.2 million. The building was owned by the Rowell Company, O. J. Woodward and the T. W. Patterson Building Company. It was not purpose-built for Berkeley’s department store, but store owner Gilbert C. Berkeley was the first person to lease the building.33
Figure 1. Berkeley’s department store, 1961.34
Berkeley’s opened as Bruckner’s department store in 1919 and occupied four other locations prior to opening at 887 Fulton Street. The company was an upscale women’s clothing retailer. Berkeley’s owner, Gilbert C. Berkeley, was a proponent of the Downtown Fresno revitalization efforts and construction of Fulton Mall. He served on several local economic boards, including the Hundred Percenters, Fresno Community Council, Fresno Convention Bureau, and Fresno State College Bulldog Boosters. Berkeley 33 Ward W. Grimes, “Berkeley’s Will Open In New Quarters,” Fresno Bee, April 9, 1961, 41-F. 34 Grimes, “Berkeley’s Will Open In New Quarters.”
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hoped to set an example for other business owners by moving to Fulton Mall and investing in the revitalization efforts. During construction of the subject property, Berkeley purchased the building to the south and the department store occupied that building until the new building was completed. 35 Berkeley’s closed its Fulton Mall store in 1982 and relocated to Manchester Center. 36 After the store closed, the building was utilized for small events, including a warehouse sale for the Walter Smith company, and a Christmas bazaar sponsored by the Friendship Center for the Blind. 37 In 1991, Nita Shops proposed to remodel the building, which had been vacant since 1982, for use again as a clothing store. The proposed remodel of the ground floor would cost $30,000 to $40,000. 38 Nita Shop liquidated in April 2007, and the building at 887 Fulton Street has since been vacant. 39 The property was purchased by the City of Fresno in 2007 and then sold to the Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation under a Disposition and Development Agreement in May 2024.40 Little has changed on the exterior of the building with the exception of the removal of “Berkeley’s” signs from the Fulton Street and Kern Street façades and boarding of the windows.
Area of Potential Effects
The proposed Area of Potential Effects (APE) for the 887 Fulton Street inventory and evaluation report is the footprint of the building. The building is approximately 0.26 acres in area. The APE is bound by Fulton Street to the northeast, a public square at the terminus of Kern Street to the northwest, Homerun Alley to the southwest, and 865 Fulton Street to the southeast (see Appendix A, Project Map). The APE was defined following guidance at 36 CFR Section 800.16 that describes an APE as follows:
geographic area or areas within which an undertaking may directly or indirectly cause changes in the character or use of historic properties, if any such properties exist. The area of potential effects is influenced by the scale and nature of an undertaking and may be different kinds of effects caused by the undertaking.
The Section 106 regulations are specific and require that an APE is identified prior to taking the necessary steps to identify historic properties. The building at 887 Fulton Street is the only property that would be affected by the proposed cleanup work. Fulton Street and Homerun Alley would be utilized for ingress and egress to perform the work.
35 Grimes, “Berkeley’s Will Open In New Quarters.”
36 “Berkeley’s will close store,” Fresno Bee, December 14, 1985, E6. 37 Advertisement, “Warehouse Sale Low Prices,” Fresno Bee, September 13, 1982, 4; “Briefly Told,” Fresno Bee, November 30, 1982, B2.
38 Rhoda Fukushima, “Clothier Moving Downtown,” Fresno Bee, August 15, 1991, D1. 39 Advertisement, “Public Auction,” Fresno Bee, April 6, 2007, A14. 40 “$1 vacant building in Fresno to become business incubator,” Fresno Bee, May 6, 2024, 1.
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The building that would be affected is vacant and in disrepair. The property was previously recorded in a California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) 523 Series Form and recommended eligible for local designation and ineligible for listing in the NRHP (Appendix B). The recommendation does not appear to have been reviewed by the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). Additionally, the property was previously recorded and evaluated in a DPR 523 Series Form for the Fulton Mall Historic District. T he recommendation for the district was not formally submitted to SHPO for review. 4 Methods and Findings
Cultural resources investigations for the Project included a records search conducted at the Southern San Joaquin Valley Information Center (SSJVIC) of the California Historical Resources Information System (CHRIS), a desktop literature review, and a built environment pedestrian survey of the entire Project APE.
4.1 SSJVIC Records Search and Desktop Review Results
On October 13, 2025, Stantec archaeologist Jenna Santy requested a record search at the SSJVIC of the CHRIS (SSJVIC reference No. 25-413, Appendix C) to identify previously recorded resources and studies within 0.25 mile of the Project APE. Resource inventories, including the California Register of Historical Resources (CRHR) and California Historical Landmarks, were also consulted, as well as historic topographic maps, historic aerial imagery, General Land Office (GLO) plat maps, and listings of resources on the Archaeological Determinations of Eligibility listing and California Office of Historic Preservation Built Environment Resources Database (BERD).
Additionally, historical research was conducted by Rebecca Riggs and Madeline Josa that was focused on the history of the region, including the residential and commercial development. Preliminary research included a review of current and historic maps and previous reports, as well as research at the San Joaquin Valley Heritage & Genealogy Center in the Fresno County Public Library. Ms. Riggs and Ms. Josa conducted primary and secondary research to develop appropriate historical contexts for the evaluation of the one identified property in addition to the surrounding neighborhood. Resources consulted included digital history publications, digital periodicals, local historical contexts, and local periodicals that address the development of the region.
The records search identified one previously recorded resource below the vertical extent of the APE (Table 1), and 36 resources within 0.25 miles of the APE (Appendix D). The previously recorded resource below the APE is a historic-period archaeological historic district. Four previous studies were conducted within or immediately adjacent to the Project APE (Table 2). Nineteen (19) previous studies have been conducted within a 0.25-mile buffer of the APE (Table 3).
Table 1. Previously Recorded Resources within the APE from the SSJVIC Records Search P-Number Resource Name Author(s) Year
Evaluation
Recommendation
P-10-007206 Town of Fresno
Natalie Lawson, Jennifer
Moritz, and David Oliver of
PaleoWest
2020 3S
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Table 2. Previous Studies within or Immediately Adjacent to the APE Study
Number Author Year Title
FR-01694 Powell, John Edward and
McGuire, Michael J. 1994
Supplementary Historic Building Survey, Historic
Resources Survey (Ratkovich Plan), Fresno,
California
FR-02076 Hattersley-Drayton, Karana 2004 Historic Architecture Survey Report for the "Bungalow" Court Project, Fresno, California
FR-02244 Donaldson, Milford Wayne 2005
National park Service (NPS) land and Water
Conservation Fund (LWCF) Program Application
for the Fulton Mall Children's Play Equipment
Replacement Project, City of Fresno, Fresno
County, California
FR-02732 Nelson, Douglas, Martin,
John, and Knight, Lauren 2015 Historic American Landscape Survey HALS CA- 116 Fulton Mall, Fresno, Fresno County, California
Table 3. Previous Studies within a 0.25-Mile Buffer of the APE Study
Number Author Year Title
FR-00135
Hatoff, Brian, Voss, Barb,
Waechter, Sharon, Benté,
Vance, and Wee, Stephen
1995 Cultural Resources Inventory Report for the
Proposed Mojave Northward Expansion Project.
FR-00924 Wren, Donald G. 1982
Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Report
Summary for Centre Plaza - Hotel and Conference
Center
FR-01660
Henry, Doug, Wolfe,
Marianne, and Bradley,
Denise
2000
Draft Environment Impact Report for the Demolition
of 862 Van Ness Avenue and 844 Van Ness
Avenue
FR-01693 Kallenberg, John, Moffat,
Jill, and Baldwin, Adele 2001
Richfield Super Garage (L.C. Wesley Super
Garage, ARCO Garage) 862 Van Ness Avenue,
Fresno, California 93721
FR-01693A Powell, John Edward and
McGuire, Michael J. 1994
Supplementary Historic Building Survey, Historic
Resources Survey (Ratkovich Plan) Fresno
California
FR-02002 Mason, Roger D. and
Shepard, Richard S. 2000
Cultural Resources Survey Report for Level 3 Long
Haul Fiber Optic Project: WS04 Connection to
Fresno 3R Facility, in the City of Fresno, Fresno
County, California
FR-02287
Arrington, Cindy, Bass,
Bryon, Brown, Joan, Corey,
Chris, and Hunt, Kevin
2006
Cultural Resources Final Report of Monitoring and
Findings for the Qwest Network Construction
Project, State of California
FR-02364 Orfila, Rebecca S. 2007
A Cultural and Architectural Resources
Assessment of Block 76 for the City of Fresno
Subsurface Water Tank Project (APN 468-29-XXX)
FR-02560 Peterson, Cher L. and
Crawford, Kathleen A. 2012
Cultural Resources Records Search and Site Visit
Results for T-Mobile West, LLC Candidate
SC08734A (Fresno Grizzlies) 801 Van Ness Ave,
Fresno, Fresno County, California
FR-02696 Garr, Joshua and Baxter,
Scott 2014
Archaeological Monitoring Report for the Fresno
Large Diameter Pipeline, City and County of
Fresno
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FR-02722 Anderson, Katherine and
Vader, Michael 2015
Fresno Recycled Water Distribution System
Project, Phase I Cultural Resources Study, Fresno
County, California
FR-02722A Anderson, Katherine and
Vader, Michael 2017 Recycled Water Distribution System, Southwest Quadrant: Phase I Cultural Resources Study
FR-02778 Behan, Andrea and
Moloney, Brenna 2016
A Historic Properties Inventory and Documentation
for the Union Paific Railroad FRNO.CA.16 MP
205.75 Communications Tower, Fresno County,
California
FR-02802
Bunse, Meta, Melvin,
Steven, and Brookshear,
Cheryl
2015
Pre-Construction Condition Assessment Report for
1713 Tulare Street (Southern Pacific Depot
Building), Merced to Fresno Section of the
California High Speed Train Project
FR-02859 Pearson, Jeffrey and
Crawford, Kathleen 2016
Cultural Resources Records Search and Site Visit
Results for T-Mobile West LLC Candidate
SC08734A (Fresno Grizzlies), 801 Van Ness Ave,
Fresno, Fresno County, California
FR-02859A Crawford, Kathleen A. 2016 for T-Mobile West LLC Candidate SC08734A (Fresno Grizzlies), 801 Van Ness Ave, Fresno,
Fresno County, California
FR-02896 Slawson, Dana N. and Kay,
Michael
2012 Fresno Fulton Corridor Specific Plan and
Downtown Neighborhoods Community Plan Project
FR-02896A Hattersley-Drayton, Karana
and Stock Jody 2015 South Van Ness Industrial District Historic Survey, Fresno, California
FR-02899 McIntosh, Douglas 2017
Cultural Resources Records Search and Site Visits
Results for AT&T Mobility, LLC Candidate
CVL02709 (Baseball Parking Lot), 803 Van Ness
Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, California
Additionally, desktop and in-person research identified two previously recorded resources within the APE (Table 4). Neither record was submitted to SHPO for review.
Table 4. Previously Recorded Resources within the APE from Desktop Research P-Number Resource Name Author(s) Year Evaluation
Recommendation
N/A 887 Fulton Mall Historic Resources Group 2012 5S3
N/A Fulton Mall Historic
District Historic Resources Group 2013 6Z
4.2 Native American Consultation
A Sacred Lands File search request was completed by the Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC) on October 2, 2025, and the results of that search were negative for previously known tribal cultural resources. The NAHC provided the EPA a list of Native American contacts for the APE. As the lead federal agency, the EPA is responsible for tribal consultation pursuant to Section 106. EPA initiated tribal consultation via electronic communication and by mail on December 31, 2025. Table 5 provides a record of the results of tribal consultation.
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Table 5. Results of Tribal Consultation
Tribe Tribal Representative Date Contacted Response Received Amah Mutsun Tribal
Band
Ed Ketchum, Vice-
Chairperson December 31, 2025
Vice-Chairperson Ketchum
responded via email on December
31, 2025, that the proposed Project
was outside of the traditional
territory of the Amah Mutsun Tribal
Band.
Amah Mutsun Tribal
Band
Valentin Lopez,
Chairperson December 31, 2025 N/A
Kitanemuk & Yowlumne
Tejon Indians
Delia Dominguez,
Chairperson December 31, 2025 N/A
Northern Valley Yokut /
Ohlone Tribe
Katherine Perez,
Chairperson December 31, 2025 N/A
Northern Valley Yokut /
Ohlone Tribe
Timothy Perez, Tribal
Compliance Officer December 31, 2025 N/A
Table Mountain
Rancheria
Michelle Heredia-
Cordova, Chairperson December 31, 2025 N/A
Table Mountain
Rancheria
Bob Pennell, Cultural
Resource Director December 31, 2025 N/A
Tule River Indian Tribe Felix Christman, THPO December 31, 2025 N/A Tule River Indian Tribe Kerri Vera, Environmental
Department December 31, 2025 N/A
Wuksachi Indian
Tribe/Eshom Valley
Band
Kenneth Woodrow,
Chairperson December 31, 2025 N/A
4.3 Letters to Interested Parties and Public Outreach
The EPA sent letters to interested parties on December 31, 2025. The interested parties in the project area are the Fresno County Historical Society and the Fresno County Historical Museum. In addition, the City of Fresno will notify the public of their intention to perform hazardous cleanup activities on the building at one of the City Council meetings in early 2026 and provide an opportunity for comment. No responses from interested parties have been received as of April 16, 2026.
4.4 Built Environment Field Survey
A built environment field survey for the Project was conducted by Stantec architectural historians Rebecca Riggs and Madeline Josa on October 16, 2025, and involved walking on the public right -of-way adjacent to the Project APE (see Appendix A) with a representative from the City of Fresno.
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photographs of the setting. Positioning data accuracy was checked through visual observations and cross - checked with modern aerial photography, county records, and mapping.
The Project APE consists of the footprint of the building at 887 Fulton Street that has the potential to be affected by the Project. Ms. Riggs and Ms. Josa documented the adjacent properties to get a sense of the overall feeling of the subject property, compared to localized and adjacent construction and changes. The APE is within the Fresno downtown core and is surrounded by one- to three-story commercial buildings constructed between 1945 and 1970 in the Modern and Mid-Century Modern architectural styles. The adjacent commercial buildings are all similar in massing, scale, and purpose to the subject property, and many are vacant or abandoned and in disrepair. Directly west and south of the APE, separated by Homerun Alley, is a minor league baseball stadium, owned by the City of Fresno.
Built in 1961, 887 Fulton Street is a multi-level two-part commercial block building constructed in the Mid- Century Modern style. The building has a concrete foundation, rectangular plan, and a flat roof with what appears to be aluminum coping. Two façades of the building, those that face Fulton and Kern Streets, are clad in split-face concrete brick and have tile cladding at the base of the building over the concrete foundation.
Near the center of each of these façades is a recessed entryway to the building. Each entryway has one set of glazed double doors below a transom. The façades each have multiple large, fixed-pane glass display windows on the ground level, which are currently boarded over. The Fulton Street side has three display windows and the Kern Street side has three display windows and two additional rectangular windows. The display windows and entryways are protected by a cantilevered segmental arch vault concrete canopy. In the center of the Kern Street façade is a large rectangular window with 12 panes that spans almost the full height of the building.
The façade above the wall shared with 865 Fulton Street and the façade facing the baseball stadium are clad in smooth faced concrete brick. The façade facing the baseball stadium has an unadorned recessed doorway and a vent opening. The entirety of the exterior of the building has patches of visible mold and water damage, including the concrete canopies (Figure 1 through Figure 13).
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Figure 2. Overview of 887 Fulton Street from Fulton Street, facing south (Stantec, 2025).
Figure 3. Fulton Street façade of 887 Fulton Street, facing northwest (Stantec, 2025).
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Figure 4. Fulton Street façade of 887 Fulton Street, facing southwest (Stantec, 2025).
Figure 5. 887 Fulton Street, at left, on the square at the eastern entrance of Chukchansi Park, facing southwest (Stantec, 2025).
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Figure 6. North façade of 887 Fulton Street, facing south (Stantec, 2025).
Figure 7. Detail of north corner of 887 Fulton Street, facing south (Stantec, 2025).
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Figure 8. North façade of 887 Fulton Street, facing east (Stantec, 2025).
Figure 9. The north façade entrance to the building, at right, facing southeast (Stantec, 2025).
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Figure 10. Detail of the cantilevered concrete canopy on the north façade of the building, facing northeast (Stantec, 2025).
Figure 11. West corner of 887 Fulton Street, facing east (Stantec, 2025).
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Figure 12. Detail of the cladding materials at the west corner of 887 Fulton Street, facing east (Stantec, 2025).
Figure 13. Rear of 887 Fulton Street on Homerun Alley, at left, facing north (Stantec, 2025).
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Figure 14. Entrance to 887 Fulton Street on Homerun Alley, facing east (Stantec, 2025).
Evaluation of Identified Resources
The records search and literature review identified one previously recorded historic-period archaeological district below the vertical extent of the APE, and one previously recorded building within the APE. No known subsurface resources have been located within the archaeological district below the APE, though several have been located within the vicinity (within 0.10 miles). 41 Therefore, the potential for buried cultural resources beneath the APE is moderate to high. However, due to the lack of ground disturbance associated with the Project, the potential to encounter buried cultural resources during Project activities within the APE is low.
The subject property, a former department store, is within the APE and is more than 50 years old. The building was previously recorded with a recommended California Historical Resource status code of 5S3:
“Appears to be individually eligible for local listing or designation through survey evaluation.” The building 41 Lawson.
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was recommended not eligible for listing in the NRHP. The recommendations do not appear to have been reviewed by the SHPO.
The property was revisited and analyzed under the appropriate themes identified in the historic context (development of downtown Fresno) for this specific Project. The property was re-evaluated according to the NRHP and CRHR significance criteria (Appendix E).
5.1 Berkeley Building
887 Fulton Street was previously recorded and evaluated as part of the Historical Resources Evaluation Report for the Fulton Mall Reconstruction Project and was recommended not individually eligible for listing in the NRHP. This evaluation concurs with the previous NRHP recommendation, as well as recommending 887 Fulton Street not individually eligible for listing in the CRHR. 887 Fulton Street is not significantly associated with events that have made a significant contribution to broad patterns in local, state, or national history. 887 Fulton Street was constructed during the revitalization efforts in Downtown Fresno and development of Fulton Mall from 1960 to 1970. Mere association with these events is not enough to qualify the property for inclusion in the NRHP. Research did not reveal that 887 Fulton Street is significantly associated with Downtown Fresno revitalization efforts or Fulton Mall’s development. The building was not purpose-built for the Berkeley’s department store, and research did not reveal that the store was significant in commercial history. Therefore, 887 Fulton Street is recommended not eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR under Criterion A/1. 887 Fulton Street was not found to be associated with the lives of persons significant in local, state, or national history. The building was owned by several individuals and companies – Rowell Company, O. J.
Woodward and the T. W. Patterson Building Company – but is most closely associated with Gilbert C.
Berkeley as the owner of Berkeley’s department store, the first and longest occupant of the building.
Berkeley moved to Fresno from New York City in 1943, and shortly after began work at Bruckner’s department store. He and his wife Miriam Slater Berkeley purchase Bruckner’s and renamed the store Berkeley’s before the store moved to 887 Fulton Street. He was active in civic and commercial affairs in Fresno and was a successful business owner. Research did not reveal, however, any specific impacts Berkeley had on commerce in Fresno that can be tied to the building at 887 Fulton Street. He was one of several business owners who supported the Downtown Fresno revitalization and construction of Fulton Mall. Therefore, 887 Fulton Street is recommended not eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR under Criterion B/2.
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offices, restaurants, and shopping centers.42 The building at 887 Fulton Street is a typical example of the style. It is not an excellent example of the style because it does not articulate a particular design concept or exhibit a high quality of design that embodies the integral characteristics of the style. For this reason, the building also does not possess high artistic value. The building does not represent the work of a master.
Designer Victor Gruen designed master plans for several shopping centers across the United States but was not the designer of this building. Local architect Alastair Simpson worked for several firms and partnerships before establishing his own firm in 1953. His work throughout the San Joaquin Valley was extensive. He is best known for his design of his own home in Fresno, the Frazier Mountain Park Elementary School in Frazier Mountain, the Fresno Community Hospital complex, and several other hospitals and educational facilities.
43 The building at 887 Fulton Street is not recognized in literature as one of his most notable projects and is not an important example of his work. Both the interior designers Burke, Kober and Nicolais and contractor Harris Construction Company were prolific firms that designed properties throughout California. The building at 887 Fulton Street is not a significant example of the work of either firm. The building does not represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction. For these reasons, the subject property is recommended not eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR under Criterion C/3.
887 Fulton Street is not a source or likely source of important information regarding history , building materials, construction techniques, or advancements in architecture or engineering. Such buildings are well documented in the historic record and use common construction materials and techniques that would not be deemed significant. Therefore, the subject property is recommended not eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR under Criterion D/4. The subject property was not evaluated for archaeological signifi cance.
In 2013, Fulton Mall was evaluated for listing in the NRHP as a potential historic district. The study concluded that there was the potential for the presence of a Fulton Mall Historic District, and that the property at 887 Fulton Street, the Former Berkeley’s Building, would be a contributor to the district. The potential district was described as significant for its association with early and mid-twentieth century commercial development and commerce in Downtown Fresno. The study ultimately concluded that the Fulton Mall Historic District did not retain sufficient integrity to constitute a historic district. 44 The record and evaluation for the Fulton Mall Historic District were not submitted to SHPO for review or concurrence. For this reason, the Fulton Mall Historic District is assumed eligible for listing in the NRHP and CRHR for the purposes of this undertaking only. The historic district is assumed eligible for listing under 42 City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Citywide Historic Context Statement: Context: Architecture and Engineering, Sub-Context: L.A. Modernism, 1919-1980 (Department of City Planning, Los Angeles, 2021), 128, 143.
43 Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD), “Alastair Simpson (Architect),” https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/3304/; “Simpson, Alastair,” Fresno Bee, December 10, 1992, B8. 44 P. Travis and Phillip Vallejo, California Department of Parks and Recreation District Record for Potential Fulton Street/Fulton Mall Historic District, on file at Fresno County Public Library, Fresno, 2013.
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Criterion A/1 for its association with commercial development in Downtown Fresno, and under Criterion C/3 as a designed landscape by well-known architect Garret Eckbo and as a significant concentration of Midcentury Modern commercial architecture. The assumed period of significance is 1914 to 1970. 45 The property at 887 Fulton Street was previously identified as a potential contributor to the identified Fulton Mall Historic District. For the purposes of this undertaking only, the Fulton Mall Historic District is assumed eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR under Criterion A/1 and C/3. Therefore, the subject property is assumed eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR as a district contributor for the purposes of this undertaking only. It retains integrity of location, design, materials, workmanship, setting, feeling and association, in relation to the period of post-war modern commercial development in Downtown Fresno.
Effects of the Undertaking
The NHPA, as amended, in 36 CFR Section 800.5 (a)(1) defines adverse effects as impacts to a historic property as the result of a federal undertaking that may directly or indirectly alter characteristics of a historic property that qualify it for inclusion in the NRHP. Section 800.5(a)(2) identifies examples of effects, which include physical destruction or damage to the property; relocation of the property; alterations not consistent with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards; change of use or physical features of a property’s setting; visual, atmospheric, or audible intrusions; neglect resulting in deterioration; or transfer, lease, or sale of a property out of federal ownership or control without adequate protections.
The building at 887 Fulton Street was evaluated and is recommended not individually eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR under any criteria. The building at 887 Fulton Street was previously recommended eligible as a contributor to the Fulton Mall Historic District, which is assumed eligible for listing in the NRHP and CRHR for the purposes of this undertaking only. Therefore, the building is considered a historic property for the purposes of this undertaking. The property is vacant and in poor physical con dition.
The proposed Project includes mold abatement activities, abatement of ACM and lead-based paint LBP as needed, removal of the interior ceiling, restoration of the building interior and exterior including construction of a new drop ceiling, and reparation or replacement of the roof. All proposed work would occur within the footprint of the existing building at 887 Fulton Street. There would be no ground-disturbing activities.
All of the proposed work would occur within the building, or on the roof, and would not be visible from the public right-of-way. The character-defining features of the building that qualify it to be assumed eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR are its Midcentury Modern design features and its clear association with commercial growth in Downtown Fresno. The proposed work would not alter any characteristics of the historic property that qualify it for inclusion in the NRHP/CRHR and would not diminish the int egrity of the building. There is the potential for atmospheric effects due to construction activities. However, these effects would be temporary, and the atmospheric setting would be equivalent to existing conditions one 45 Travis and Vallejo, California Department of Parks and Recreation District Record for Potential Fulton Street/Fulton Mall Historic District.
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construction is complete. Therefore, Stantec recommends a finding of No Adverse Effect for the undertaking.
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Fresno Bee. Advertisement, “Warehouse Sale Low Prices.” September 13, 1982.
Fresno Bee. “Berkeley’s will close store.” December 14, 1985.
Fresno Bee. “Briefly Told.” November 30, 1982.
Fresno Bee. “Simpson, Alastair.” December 10, 1992.
Fukushima, Rhoda. “Clothier Moving Downtown.” Fresno Bee, August 15, 1991.
Grimes, Ward W. “Berkeley’s Will Open In New Quarters.” Fresno Bee, April 9, 1961.
Historic Resources Group. California Department of Parks and Recreation 523 Series Form for 887 Fulton Mall. On file at Fresno County Library, Fresno, 2012.
Kroeber, Alfred. Handbook of the Indians of California. University of California Publications, Dover Publications, New York, 1925; 1964 reprint.
Kyle, Douglas E., ed. Historic Spots in California. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, California, 2002.
Lawson, Natalie, Jennifer Moritz, and David Oliver. California Department of Parks and Recreation Series 523 Form for Town of Fresno (P-10-007206). On file at SSJVIC, 2020.
Moratto, M. J. California Archaeology. Academic Press, New York, New York, 1984.
Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD). “Alastair Simpson (Architect).” https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/3304/.
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Page & Turnbull, Inc. “Historic Properties Survey Report for South Stadium Project Area, Phase I Area, Fresno California.” Prepared for Forest City Residential West, Inc. 2008.
RHAA Landscape Architecture. “Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS) Fulton Mall, Fresno, California.” Prepared for City of Fresno and California Department of Transportation, District 6, 2015.
Rosenthal, J. S., G. G. White, and M. Q. Sutton. Chapter 10: The Central Valley. In California Prehistory:
Colonization, Culture, and Complexity. Terry L. Jones and Kathryn A. Klar, editors. AltaMira Press, Lantham, Maryland, 2007.
Travis, P. and Phillip Vallejo. California Department of Parks and Recreation District Record for Potential Fulton Street/Fulton Mall Historic District. On file at Fresno County Public Library, Fresno, 2013.
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. National Register Bulletin 15: How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation. 2022.
Wallace, William J. “Southern Valley Yokuts.” In California, edited by Robert F. Heizer, Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 8. William C. Sturtevant, general editor. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1978.
Warszawski, Marek. “Revitalization of downtown Fresno stuck in second gear. What’s the hold up?” Fresno Bee, July 25, 2025, https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/marek- warszawski/article311282595.html.
Western City Magazine. “Fresno’s Mall In The Making.” August, 1964.
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Appendix A Project Map
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State of California - The Resources Agency Primary# ________ _________ _ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #_________________ _ PRIMARY RECORD Trinomia ~--------------- --
NRHP Status Code =-5S=-=-3____________ _
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Review Code ____ Reviewer Date
Page_1_ of ....1... Resource name(s) or number (assigned by recorder) 887 Fulton Mall P1. Other Identifier: Berkeley's Department Store Caltrans Map Reference No.: 23 *P2. Location: □ Not for Publication ■ Unrestricted *a. County Fresno County *b. USGS 7.5' Quad Fresno South Date 1963, revised 1981 T14S R20E *c. Address 887 Fulton Mall City Fresno Zip 93721
*e. Other Locational Data: APN: # 46828221T
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries.) Located on the southwest side of Fulton Mall, at the corner of Kern Street, this commercial building is rectangular in plan and capped with a flat roof with no eaves. The building displays a series of single-pane display windows and a recessed glass entry, sheltered beneath a canopy made of barrel vaults. The upper fac;:ade is characterized by faux stone- or concrete-clad siding, with no ornamental detailing. In good condition, the property exhibits a good degree of integrity. *P3b. Resource Attributes: (list attributes and codes) HP6. 1-3 Story Commercial Building. *P4. Resources Present: ■ Building □ Structure □ Object □ Site □ District □ Element of District □ Other P5a. Photo P5b. Photo: (view and date)
View from north
March 1, 2011
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources: ■ historic
1961 (The Fresno Bee)
*P7. Owner and Address:
City of Fresno
*P8. Recorded by:
Historic Resources Group
12 S. Fair Oaks Avenue, Suite 200
Pasadena, CA 91105-1915
*P9. Date Recorded:
April 12, 2012
*P10. Survey Type:
Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter "none") Historical Resources Evaluation Reporl (HRER) for the Fulton Mall Reconstruction Project, City of Fresno, California, Federal Project Number TCSPL-5060(263)
*Attachments: □ None □ Location Map □ Sketch Map □ Continuation Sheet ■ Building, Structure, and Object Record □ Archaeological Record □ District Record □ Linear Feature Record □ Milling Station Record □ Rock Art Record □ Artifact Record □ Photograph Record □ Other (list)
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
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*Resource Name or#: 887 Fulton Mall Caltrans Map Reference No.: 23 B1. Historic Name:
82. Common Name: Berkeley's Department Store
B3. Original Use: Commercial I Department Store 84. Present Use: Vacant *85. Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern
*86. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations):
While the original building permit is not available, coverage in The Fresno Bee indicates that this building opened as Berkeley's Department Store in 1961 . Building permits were not available to document alterations to the building or fafade .
This property was assigned a 6Z status code in survey work carried out in 2006. *87. Moved? ■ No □ Yes □ Unknown Date:_______ Original Location: ____________ _ "88. Related Features: None
89a. Architect: Alastair Simpson b. Builder: Unknown
*810. Significance:
Theme Mid-20th Century Commercial Redevelopment Area: Downtown Fresno Period of Significance: 1945 - 1970 Property Type: Commercial Applicable Criteria: NIA
(Discuss importance In terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity} 887 Fulton Mall was constructed during Fresno's downtown postwar commercial redevelopment period (1945 to 1970).
In the years after World War II, city officials and downtown business and property owners embraced some of the most advanced ideas in architecture, urban design and planning to revitalize downtown and stay competitive with the burgeoning suburbs. Property developers constructed new buildings in modernist and mid-century architectural styles while many older buildings were revamped with new facades. The embrace of modernist ideals to transform downtown Fresno culminated in the adoption of the Victor Gruen plan for the Central Business District and construction of the Fulton Mall.
(See Continuation Sheet)
811. Additional Resource Attributes: None
*812. References:
City of Fresno Building Permits
County of Fresno Tax Assessor Data
Sanborn Flre Insurance Maps
"Berkeley's Will Open in New Quarters," The Fresno Bee, 9 April 1961.
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator: C. McAvoy & P. Travis 926 Fulton Mall was constructed during Fresno's downtown postwar commercial redevelopment period (1945 to 1970).
*Date of Evaluation: April 1, 2011/ August 2013
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*Resource Name or# (Assigned by recorder) 887 Fulton MallPage 3 of 4 *Date 1 September 2011 IBJ Continuation □ Update"Recorded by: Historic Resources Group *P58. Photo (continued from page 1):
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*B10. Significance (continued from page 2):
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887 Fulton Mall opened in 1961 as the new location for Berkeley's, a women's apparel store. Berkeley's (originally Bruckner's) had been operating in Downtown Fresno since 1919. Commenting on the relocation to 887 Fulton Street, owner and President Gilbert IC. Berkeley stated 'We made our move to this new location on our conviction that Fresno's downtown central core will continue as the hub of the San Joaquin Valley's retail activity." The building has high integrity and appears to be unaltered since its construction save for the removal of the original Berkeley's signage.
IWhile 887 Fulton Mall does retain a good degree of integrity, its association with the revitalization efforts in downtown Fresno in and of itself is not a sufficient contextual theme for listing in the National Register under Criteria A. Additionally 887 Fulton Mall is not associated with any individuals significant in national, state, or local history (Criterion 8) and although constructed in the Mid Century Modern style is does not exhibit a significant level of design or use of material, nor does it represent the work of a master I or have high artistic value (Criterion C). For these reasons the building at 887 Fulton Mall does not appear to be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Appendix C Records Search Results
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NOTE: Report locations were omitted, per the CHRIS Data Request Form. ☒ not available
☒ not available
Note:
California
Historical
Resources
Information
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Southern San Joaquin Valley lnfom,ation Center
California State University, Bakersfield
Mail Stop: 72 DOB
9001 Stockdale Highway
Bakersfield, California 93311-1022
(661) 654-2289
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.csub.edu/ssjvic
10/13/2025
Jenna Santy
Stantec Consulting Services
1383 N. McDowell Blvd.
Petaluma, CA 94954
Re: 887 Fulton St. Blvd. Project
Records Search File No.: 25-413
The Southern San Joaquin Valley Information Center received your record search request for the project area referenced above , located on Fresno South USGS 7.5’ quad . The following reflects the results of the record s search for the project area and the 0.25 mile radius:
As indicated on the data request form, the locations of resources and reports are provided in the following format: ☐ Custom GIS Maps ☒ GIS Data ☐ Hand Drawn Maps (Inyo County Only) Resources within project area: 1 Resource (list enclosed) Resources within 0.25 mile radius: 36 Resources (list enclosed) Reports within project area: 4 Reports (list enclosed)
Reports within 0.25 mile radius: 15 Reports (list enclosed) Resource Database Printout (list): ☐ enclosed ☒ not requested ☐ nothing listed Resource Database Printout (details): ☒ enclosed ☐ not requested ☐ nothing listed Resource Digital Database Records: ☒ enclosed ☐ not requested ☐ nothing listed Report Database Printout (list): ☐ enclosed ☒ not requested ☐ nothing listed Report Database Printout (details): ☒ enclosed ☐ not requested ☐ nothing listed Report Digital Database Records: ☒ enclosed ☐ not requested ☐ nothing listed Resource Record Copies: ☒ enclosed ☐ not requested ☐ nothing listed Report Copies: ☐ enclosed ☒ not requested ☐ nothing listed OHP Built Environment Resources Directory: ☒ enclosed ☐ not requested ☐ nothing listed Archaeological Determinations of Eligibility: ☒ enclosed ☐ not requested ☐ nothing listed CA Inventory of Historic Resources (1976): ☒ enclosed ☐ not requested ☐ nothing listed Caltrans Bridge Survey: Not available at SSJVIC; please see https://dot.ca.gov/programs/environmental-analysis/cultural-studies/california-historical-bridges-tunnels Ethnographic Information:
Historical Literature:
Not available at SSJVIC
Not available at SSJVIC
Historical Maps:
http://historicalmaps.arcgis.com/usgs/
Not available at SSJVIC; please see
Local Inventories: Not available at SSJVIC
GLO and/or Rancho Plat Maps: Not available at SSJVIC; please see http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx#searchTabIndex=0&searchByTypeIndex=1and/or http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb8489p15p;developer=local;style=oac4;doc.view=items Shipwreck Inventory: Not available at SSJVIC; please see https://www.slc.ca.gov/shipwrecks/
Soil Survey Maps: Not available at SSJVIC; please see
http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/WebSoilSurvey.aspx Please forward a copy of any resulting reports from this project to the office as soon as possible. Due to the sensitive nature of archaeological site location data, we ask that you do not include resource location maps and resource location descriptions in your report if the report is for public distribution. If you have any questions regarding the results presented herein, please contact the office at the phone number listed above.
The provision of CHRIS Data via this records search response does not in any way constitute public disclosure of records otherwise exempt from disclosure under the California Public Records Act or any other law, including, but not limited to, records related to archeological site information maintained by or on behalf of , or in the possession of, the State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, State Historic Preservation Officer, Office of Historic Preservation, or the State Historical Resources Commission.
Due to processing delays and other factors, not all of the historical resource reports and resource records that have been submitted to the Office of Historic Preservation are available via this records search. Additional information may be available through the federal, state, and local agencies that produced or paid for historical resource management work in the search area. Additionally, Native American tribes have historical resource information not in the CHRIS Inventory, and you should contact the California Native American Heritage Commission for information on local/regional tribal contacts.
Should you require any additional information for the above referenced project, reference the record search number listed above when making inquiries. Invoices for Information Center services will be sent under separate cover from the California State University, Bakersfield Accounting Office.
Thank you for using the California Historical Resources Information System (CHRIS).
Sincerely,
Celeste M. Thomson
Coordinator
SSJVIC Record Search 25-413
Reports in PA: Reports in .25 Mi: Resources in PA: Resources in .25 Mi:
FR-01694 FR-00135 P-10-007206 P-10-003930
FR-02076 FR-00924 P-10-004322
FR-02244 FR-01660 P-10-004324
FR-02732 FR-01693 P-10-004326
FR-02002 P-10-004327
FR-02287 P-10-004328
FR-02364 P-10-004329
FR-02560 P-10-004330
FR-02696 P-10-004331
FR-02722 P-10-004332
FR-02778 P-10-004338
FR-02802 P-10-004339
FR-02859 P-10-004340
FR-02896 P-10-004341
FR-02899 P-10-004342
P-10-004343
P-10-004351
P-10-004352
P-10-004353
P-10-004354
P-10-004355
P-10-004356
P-10-004417
P-10-004418
P-10-004929
P-10-004932
P-10-004934
P-10-004935
P-10-005122
P-10-005123
P-10-006142
P-10-007210
P-10-007211
P-10-007212
P-10-007223
P-10-007224
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Potential Effects
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Resource Detail: P-10-003930
SSJVIC Record Search 25-413
Identifying information
Primary No.:
Trinomial:
Name:
Other IDs:
Cross-refs:
Attributes
Resource type:
Age:
Information base:
Attribute codes:
Disclosure:
Collections:
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
P-10-003930
CA-FRE-003109H
Southern Pacific Railroad
Type Name
Resource Name Southern Pacific Railroad
Extends into another county as 15-002050
Extends into another county as 16-000122
Extends into another county as 54-004626
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-004678
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-005166
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-005796
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-006130
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-006640
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007227
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007351
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007544
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007612
See also 10-007254
See also 10-007257
Subsumes 10-003199
Subsumes 10-005160
Subsumes 10-005804
Subsumes 10-005807
Subsumes 10-005810
Subsumes 10-006034
Subsumes 10-006128
Structure
Historic
Survey
AH07 (Roads/trails/railroad grades); HP11 (Engineering structure) Not for publication
No
Recording events
Date
3/5/1998
1/18/1999
10/25/2002
1/14/2004
2/11/2009
2/10/2009
2/9/2009
1/7/2010
12/1/2013
8/17/2015
6/14/2016
Recorder(s)
W.L. Norton
S. Hooper, S. Flint
Peggy B. Murphy
Bryan Larson, Cindy
Toffelmier
Joseph Freeman, Rebecca
Flores
Joseph Freeman, Rebecca
Flores
Joseph Freeman, Rebecca
Flores
Michael Hibma
Randy Baloian
Randy Baloian
J. Tibbet
Affiliation
Jones & Stokes
Applied EarthWorks, Inc.
Three Girls and a Shovel
JRP Historical Consulting
JRP Historical Consulting
JRP Historical Consulting
JRP Historical Consulting
LSA Associates
Applied Earthworks, Inc.
Applied Earthworks, Inc.
Applied EarthWorks, Inc.
Notes
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Resource Detail: P-10-003930
SSJVIC Record Search 25-413
2/8/2015 Randy Baloian Applied EarthWorks, Inc. [SUPPLEMENT} 5/21/2018 Annie McCausland Applied EarthWorks, Inc. [UPDATE] 6/1/2018 Jessica Jones Applied EarthWorks, Inc. [SUPPLEMENT] 2/17/2021 Morgan Bird SWCA Environmental [SUPPLEMENT]
Consultants
Associated reports
Report No. Year Title Affiliation
FR-00238 1999 Archaeological Survey Report for the Friant Applied EarthWorks, Inc.
Road Improvement Project, Fresno County,
California
FR-01770 2001 Archaeological Survey Report for the Friant Applied EarthWorks, Inc.
Road Improvement Project Fresno County,
California
FR-01771 2001 Historic Property Survey Reprot for the Friant Applied EarthWorks, Inc.
Road Improvement Project, Fresno County,
California
FR-01772 2001 Historic Study Report for the Friant Road Applied EarthWorks, Inc.
Improvement Project, Fresno County,
California
FR-02642 2014 Historic Property Survey Report for the Applied EarthWorks, Inc.
American Avenue Reconstruction and
Rehabilitation State Route 99 to
Temperance Avenue, Fresno County,
California
FR-02726 2015 Cultural Resources Inventory and Evaluation Applied EarthWorks, Inc. for the First Lift Canal Relining Project, Shaw
Avenue to Highway 33, Fresno County,
California
FR-02769 2016 Cultural Resources Inventory and Evaluation Applied EarthWorks for the Central Valley Power Connect
Project, Fresno, Kings, and Madera
Counties, California
FR-02847 2016 Cultural Resources Inventory for the City of Applied EarthWorks, Inc.
Huron Recycled Wastewater Project, Fresno
County, California
FR-02942 2018 Cultual Resource Inventory and Evaluation Applied EarthWorks, Inc. for the Biola Community Services District
Recycled Water Improvements Feasibility
Study, Fresno County, California
FR-03037 2018 Historic Properties Inventory and Evaluation Applied EarthWorks, Inc. for City of San Joaquin Wells 4 and 6
Manganese Treatment and Distribution
Pipeline Project, Fresno County, California
FR-03103 2021 Historic Property Survey Report City of SWCA Environmental Consultants Coalinga Trails Master Plan (TMP)
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Burrel, Coalinga, Conejo, Dos Palos, Firebaugh, Five Points, Fresno North, Fresno South, Friant, Guijarral Hills, Helm, Herndon, Huron, Jamesan, Kearney Park, Kerman, Malaga, Mendota Dam, Oxalis, Poso Farm, Reedley, Riverdale, San Joaquin, Sanger, Tranquillity, Vanguard, Wahtoke, Westhaven Address:
PLSS: T11S R21E Sec. 7 MDBM
T11S R21E Sec. 18 MDBM
T11S R21E Sec. 19 MDBM
T11S R21E Sec. 30 MDBM
T11S R21E Sec. 31 MDBM
T11S R21E Sec. 36 MDBM
T12S R21E Sec. 1 MDBM
T20S R15E SE¼ of SW¼ of Sec. 26 MDBM
T15S R21E Sec. 5 MDBM
Resource Detail: P-10-003930
SSJVIC Record Search 25-413
T15S R21E Sec. 6 MDBM
T14S R21E Sec. 31 MDBM
UTMs: Zone 11 256760mE 4089100mN NAD83 (NAD not listed) Zone 11 256910mE 4090460mN NAD83 (NAD not listed)
Zone 11 257140mE 4091800mN NAD83 (NAD not listed)
Zone 11 257370mE 4093180mN NAD83 (NAD not listed)
Zone 11 257200mE 4094600mN NAD83 (NAD not listed)
Zone 11 257960mE 4095720mN NAD83 (NAD not listed)
Zone 11 258370mE 4096200mN NAD83 (NAD not listed)
Zone 10 620741mE 8604003mN NAD83 (NAD not listed)
Zone 10 100742mE 8804003mN NAD83 (NAD not listed)
Zone 11 256783mE 4061268mN NAD83 (North)
Zone 11 257249mE 4060708mN NAD83 (South)
Zone 10 751724mE 4054732mN NAD83 ((NW End) 6/1/2018)
Zone 10 751919mE 4054575mN NAD83 ((SE End) 6/1/2018)
Management status
Database record metadata
Date User
Entered: 10/23/2013 ssjvic
Last modified: 9/9/2025 jdavid5
IC actions: Date User Action taken
10/12/2014 user Entered location, updated events: MMB
12/17/2015 user1 subsumed all Southern Pacific records: cls 1/25/2023 jdavid5 Entered Supplement
10/23/2013 ssjvic resource entered: cls
9/16/2017 User entered supplement: cls
12/21/2022 kprince4 PDF Rescanned
3/14/2019 User Entered Update: JD
4/19/2019 cthomson Verified
2/3/2023 cthomson Verified
7/20/2021 jdavid5 Entered Supplement
8/25/2021 cthomson Verified
1/11/2023 jdavid5 PDF Verified
Record status: Verified
Resource Detail: P-10-004322
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Identifying information
Primary No.: P-10-004322
Trinomial:
Name: Carmel Saddlery
Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0084-0000
Resource Name Carmel Saddlery
OTIS Resource Num 455852
OHP Property Numb 053546
Cross-refs:
Attributes
Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
Unknown
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
748 Broadway Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 510500/684550) Management status
Database record metadata
Date User
Entered: 10/15/2014 user
Last modified: 1/12/2023 jdavid5
IC actions: Date User Action taken
10/15/2014 user Entered resource: MMB
4/14/2022 kprince4 Added Identifiers
1/12/2023 jdavid5 PDF Verified
1/4/2023 kprince4 PDF Rescanned
Record status: Database Complete
Resource Detail: P-10-004324
SSJVIC Record Search 25-413
Identifying information
Primary No.:
Trinomial:
Name:
Other IDs:
Cross-refs:
Attributes
Resource type:
Age:
Information base:
Attribute codes:
Disclosure:
Collections:
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
P-10-004324
The Mason Building
Type
OHP PRN
Resource Name
OTIS Resource Num
OHP Property Numb
Building
Historic
Unknown
Name
3771-0086-0000
The Mason Building
455854
053548
HP07 (3+ story commercial building) - Offices
Unrestricted
No
The addresses were not located in the documentation but provided via aerials, 1040 Fulton Mall is the main address.
Recording events
Date
Associated reports
Location information
County:
USGS quad(s):
Address:
PLSS:
UTMs:
Fresno
Fresno South
Address
1040 Fulton Street
1048 Fulton Street
1050 Fulton Street
1042 Fulton Street
1040 Fulton Mall
Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
Unknown
City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
Fresno 93721
Fresno 93721
Fresno 93721
Fresno 93721
Fresno 93721
Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 508800/688750)
Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004326
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P-10-004326
T.W. Patterson Building
Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0088-0000
Resource Name T.W. Patterson Building
OTIS Resource Num 455856
OHP Property Numb 053550
Building
Historic
Unknown
HP07 (3+ story commercial building)
Unrestricted
No
The addresses were not located in the documentation but provided via aerials. 2014 Tulare Street is the main address of this building, the other addresses relate to commercial buisnesses located within the building.
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
6/29/1978 Unknown
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
2014 Tulare Street Fresno 93721
2016 Tulare Street Fresno 93721
2020 Tulare Street Fresno 93721
966 Fulton Street Fresno 93721
944 Fulton Mall Fresno 93721
938 Fulton Mall Fresno 93721
938 Fulton Street Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 509550/687850) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004327
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P-10-004327
J.C. Penney Building; Radin and Kamp Building
Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0089-0000
Resource Name J.C. Penney Building
Resource Name Radin and Kamp Building
OTIS Resource Num 455857
OHP Property Numb 053551
Building
Historic
Unknown
HP07 (3+ story commercial building)
Unrestricted
No
The addresses were not located in the documentation but provided via aerials. 887 Fulton Street is the main address of this building.
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
6/30/1978 Unknown
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
959 Fulton Mall Fresno 93721
887 Fulton Street
959 Fulton Street
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 509300/687650) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004328
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P-10-004328
Bank of America Building; Bank of Italy Building
Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0090-0000
Resource Name Bank of America Building
Resource Name Bank of Italy Building
OTIS Resource Num 455858
OHP Property Numb 053552
Building
Historic
Unknown
HP07 (3+ story commercial building)
Unrestricted
No
This building is likely located on an address different from the one provided on the documentation. This was determined through aerials. The location on the documetation was 1015 Fulton Malll while the proper address is likely 1015 Fulton Street.
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
6/29/1978 William E. Patnaude Allen Y. Lew & William E.
Patnaude, Inc.
10/24/1981 Robert L. Triplett, Jr. Construction Development & NRHP Inventory - Nomination Realty Corporation Form; [SUPPLEMENT]
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
1015 Fulton Street Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 250900mE 4068790mN NAD83 (NAD not listed) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004329
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Primary No.: P-10-004329
Trinomial:
Name: Helm Building; Griffith-McKenzie Building
Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0091-0000
Resource Name Helm Building
Resource Name Griffith-McKenzie Building
OTIS Resource Num 455859
OHP Property Numb 053553
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Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP07 (3+ story commercial building)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
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The addresses were not located in the documentation but provided via aerials. 1101 Fulton Street is the main address of this building.
Recording events
Date Recorder(s)
Unknown
Affiliation Notes
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Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
1101 Fulton Street Fresno 93721
1107 Fulton Street Fresno 93721
1105 Fulton Street Fresno 93721
1119 Fulton Street Fresno 93721
1121 Fulton Street Fresno 93721
1123 Fulton Street Fresno 93721
1115 Fulton Street Fresno 93721
Fulton Mall and Mariposa Mall Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 508150/689000) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004330
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Identifying information
Primary No.: P-10-004330
Trinomial:
Name: Security Bank Building; Pacific Southwest Building Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0092-0000
Resource Name Security Bank Building
Resource Name Pacific Southwest Building
OTIS Resource Num 455860
OHP Property Numb 053554
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Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP07 (3+ story commercial building)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
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General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
6/30/1978 Unknown
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
1060 Fulton Mall Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 508550/689000) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004331
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P-10-004331
Wilshire Paint Store; J.M. Rustigan Building
Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0093-0000
Resource Name Wilshire Paint Store
Resource Name J.M. Rustigan Building
OTIS Resource Num 455861
OHP Property Numb 053555
Building
Historic
Unknown
HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Unrestricted
No
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
Unknown
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Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
719 Fulton Street Fresno 93721
723 Fulton Street Fresno 93721
701 Fulton Street Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 519950/684600) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004332
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P-10-004332
Sun Stereo Warehouse
Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0094-0000
Resource Name Sun Stereo Warehouse
OTIS Resource Num 455862
OHP Property Numb 053556
Building
Historic
Unknown
HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Unrestricted
No
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Date Recorder(s)
Unknown
Affiliation Notes
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Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City
736 Fulton Fresno
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 51125/685250)
Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
93721
Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004338
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Primary No.: P-10-004338
Trinomial:
Name: Peoples Furniture Showroom & Warehouse; Zellerbach Paper Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0100-0000
Resource Name Peoples Furniture Showroom & Warehouse
Resource Name Zellerbach Paper
OTIS Resource Num 455868
OHP Property Numb 053562
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Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
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According to aerials, address no longer exists and the building is likely destroyed Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
Unknown
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Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
1776 Kern Street Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 508500/685000) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004339
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Primary No.: P-10-004339
Trinomial:
Name: Hotel Virginia
Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0101-0000
Resource Name Hotel Virginia
OTIS Resource Num 455869
OHP Property Numb 053563
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Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP05 (Hotel/motel)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
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Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
Unknown
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Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
2125 Kern Street Fresno 93721
901 L Street Fresno 93721
2139 Kern Street Fresno 93721
2137 Kern Street Fresno 93721
2131 Kern Street Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 511950/688350) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004340
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Primary No.: P-10-004340
Trinomial:
Name: Hobbs Parsons Warehouse
Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0102-0000
Resource Name Hobbs Parsons Warehouse
OTIS Resource Num 455870
OHP Property Numb 053564
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Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
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General notes
Addresses obtained via Aerials.
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
Unknown
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
911 H Street Fresno 93721
951 H Street Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 507650/685800) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004341
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Primary No.: P-10-004341
Trinomial:
Name: The Travelers Hotel
Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0103-0000
Resource Name The Travelers Hotel
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Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP05 (Hotel/motel)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
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General notes
According to aerials, address no longer exists and the building is likely destroyed.
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
Unknown
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
1812 Tulare Street Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 507650/686250) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004342
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Primary No.: P-10-004342
Trinomial:
Name: Hart's Cafeteria
Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0104-0000
Resource Name Hart's Cafeteria
OTIS Resource Num 455872
OHP Property Numb 053566
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Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
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General notes
Based on aerials, Building is likely to have been destroyed.
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
Unknown
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
2030 Tulare Street Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 510000/688250) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004343
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Primary No.: P-10-004343
Trinomial:
Name: Rowell Building
Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0105-0000
Resource Name Rowell Building
OTIS Resource Num 455873
OHP Property Numb 053567
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Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP07 (3+ story commercial building)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
Accession no(s):
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General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
Unknown
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
2100 Tulare Street Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 510450/688650) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004351
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Primary No.: P-10-004351
Trinomial:
Name: Clif Furgerson Advertising Building; James Phelan Building Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0114-0000
Resource Name Clif Furgerson Advertising Building
Resource Name James Phelan Building
OTIS Resource Num 455884
OHP Property Numb 053578
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Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
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General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
1/1/1995 Maureen Brooks City of Fresno Historic Resources Inventory 1/21/1981 Katherine W. Furgurson NRHP Inventory - Nomination Form
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
700 Van Ness Avenue Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 251320mE 4068580mN NAD27
Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004352
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P-10-004352
Gottschalks Distribution Center
Type
OHP PRN
Resource Name
OTIS Resource Num
OHP Property Numb
Building
Historic
Unknown
Name
3771-0115-0000
Gottschalks Distribution Center
455885
053579
HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Unrestricted
No
Recording events
Date Recorder(s)
1/1/1996 Maureen Brooks
6/30/1978 Unknown
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address
755 Van Ness Avenue
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Resource Detail: P-10-004353
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Primary No.: P-10-004353
Trinomial:
Name: Turner Building
Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0116-0000
Resource Name Turner Building
OTIS Resource Num 455886
OHP Property Numb 053580
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Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
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General notes
Based on aerials, Building is likely to have been destroyed.
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
6/25/1978 William E. Patnaude Allen Y. Lew & William E.
Patnaude, Inc
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
812 Van Ness Avenue Fresno 93721
2107 Inyo street Fresno 93721
2123 Inyo Street Fresno 93721
802 Van Ness Avenue Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 51210/68670)
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Resource Detail: P-10-004354
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Primary No.: P-10-004354
Trinomial:
Name: The Californian; Hotel Californian
Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0117-0000
Resource Name The Californian
Resource Name Hotel Californian
OTIS Resource Num 455887
OHP Property Numb 053581
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Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP03 (Multiple family property); HP05 (Hotel/motel) Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
Unknown
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
851 Van Ness Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 511200/687350) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004355
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Primary No.: P-10-004355
Trinomial:
Name: Kern Kay Hotel (Slaters Furniture); The Kern Kay
Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0118-0000
Resource Name Kern Kay Hotel (Slaters Furniture)
Resource Name The Kern Kay
OTIS Resource Num 455888
OHP Property Numb 053582
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Attributes
Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
6/26/1978 Unknown
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
912 Van Ness Fresno 93721
906 Van Ness Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 511200/687850) Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-004356
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Primary No.: P-10-004356
Trinomial:
Name: Hardy's Theatre; Liberty Theatre
Other IDs: Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0119-0000
Resource Name Hardy's Theatre
Resource Name Liberty Theatre
OTIS Resource Num 455889
OHP Property Numb 053583
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Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP10 (Theater)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
6/26/1978 Unknown
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
944 Van Ness Avenue Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 mE mN NAD27 (UTM listed as 510750/688400) Management status
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Date User
Entered: 10/16/2014 user
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Resource Detail: P-10-004417
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P-10-004417
Southern Pacific Passenger Depot
Type Name
OHP PRN 3771-0178-0000
Resource Name Southern Pacific Passenger Depot
OTIS Resource Num 455954
OHP Property Numb 053648
National Register 78000665
Building
Historic
Unknown
HP17 (Railroad depot)
Unrestricted
No
This building is likely located on an address different from the one provided on the documentation. This was determined through aerials. The location on the documetation was 1033 H Street while the proper address is likely 1713 Tulare Street.
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
8/29/1977 Brad S. Fisher
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
1713 Tulare Street Fresno Fresno
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 250640mE 4068640mN NAD27
Management status
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Date User
Entered: 10/16/2014 user
Last modified: 8/29/2025 cthomson
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Resource Detail: P-10-004418
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Identifying information
Primary No.: P-10-004418
Trinomial:
Name: Fresno Republican Printery Building
Other IDs: Type Name
Resource Name Fresno Republican Printery Building
OHP PRN 3771-0179-0000
OTIS Resource Num 455955
OHP Property Numb 053649
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Attributes
Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
9/18/1978 John Edward Powell The Klein Group and/or
California Investment
Management Company
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
2130 Kern Street Fresno 93721
PLSS:
UTMs: Zone 11 251190mE 4068760mN NAD27
Management status
Database record metadata
Date User
Entered: 9/20/2014 user
Last modified: 1/12/2023 jdavid5
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Resource Detail: P-10-004929
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Identifying information
Primary No.: P-10-004929
Trinomial:
Name: Richfield Super Garage; L.C. Wesley Super Garage
Other IDs: Type Name
Resource Name Richfield Super Garage
Resource Name L.C. Wesley Super Garage
OHP Property Numb 142139
OTIS Resource Num 555963
Cross-refs: Subsumes 10-005007
Attributes
Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP11 (Engineering structure) - Parking garage Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
8/31/1994 John Edward Powell, California State University, Michael McGuire Fresno Foundation
Associated reports
Report No. Year Title Affiliation
FR-01693 2001 Richfield Super Garage (L.C. Wesley Super Department of Public Works Garage, ARCO Garage) 862 Van Ness
Avenue, Fresno, California 93721
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
862 Van Ness Avenue Fresno 468-252-10 93721
PLSS:
UTMs:
Management status
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Entered: 10/23/2014 user
Last modified: 1/13/2023 jdavid5
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Resource Detail: P-10-004932
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Identifying information
Primary No.: P-10-004932
Trinomial:
Name: Del Monte Plant No. 68; California Packing Corporation (Calpak) Other IDs: Type Name
Resource Name Del Monte Plant No. 68
Resource Name California Packing Corporation (Calpak)
OHP Property Numb 142142
OTIS Resource Num 555966
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Attributes
Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP08 (Industrial building) - Packing Plant Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
8/31/1994 John Edward Powell, California State University, Michael McGuire Fresno Foundation
9/11/2014 R. Scott Baxter ESA
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
1626 Tulare Street Fresno 467-040-12s 93706
PLSS: T14S R20E SE¼ of NE¼ of Sec. 9 MDBM
UTMs: Zone 11 250534mE 4068691mN NAD83
Management status
Database record metadata
Date User
Entered: 10/23/2014 user
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Resource Detail: P-10-004934
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Identifying information
Primary No.: P-10-004934
Trinomial:
Name: Liberty Laundry
Other IDs: Type Name
Resource Name Liberty Laundry
OHP Property Numb 142145
OTIS Resource Num 555969
Cross-refs:
Attributes
Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
8/31/1994 John Edward Powell, California State University, Michael McGuire Fresno Foundation
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
1830 Inyo Street Fresno 468-286-11 93721
PLSS:
UTMs:
Management status
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Entered: 10/23/2014 user
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Resource Detail: P-10-004935
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Primary No.:
Trinomial:
P-10-004935
Name: Fresno Photo Engraving
Other IDs: Type Name
Resource Name Fresno Photo Engraving
OHP Property Numb 142146
OTIS Resource Num 555970
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Age:
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Disclosure:
Collections:
Building
Historic
Unknown
HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Unrestricted
No
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
Recording events
Date
8/31/1994
Recorder(s)
John Edward Powell,
Michael McGuire
Affiliation
California State University,
Fresno Foundation
Notes
Associated reports
Location information
County:
USGS quad(s):
Address:
Fresno
Fresno South
Address
748 Fulton Street
750 Fulton Street
City
Fresno
Fresno
Assessor's parcel no.
468-256-09
468-256-09
Zip code
93721
93721
PLSS:
UTMs:
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Entered: 10/23/2014
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Primary No.: P-10-005122
Trinomial:
Name: California Transit Company
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Type
Resource Name
OTIS Resource Num
OHP Property Numb
Building
Historic
Unknown
Name
California Transit Company
494429
099118
HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Unrestricted
No
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
1/1/1995 Maureen Brooks City of Fresno
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
701 L Street Fresno 468-253-10 93721
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UTMs:
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Entered: 8/20/2014 cthomson
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Primary No.: P-10-005123
Trinomial:
Name:
Other IDs: Type Name
OHP Property Numb 099119
OTIS Resource Num 494430
Cross-refs:
Attributes
Resource type: Building
Age: Historic
Information base: Unknown
Attribute codes: HP06 (1-3 story commercial building)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
According to aerials, address no longer exists and the building is likely destroyed.
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
1/1/1995 Maureen Brooks City of Fresno
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address: Address City Assessor's parcel no. Zip code
750 Van Ness Avenue Fresno 468-253-11 93721
730 Van Ness Avenue Fresno 468-253-11 93721
PLSS:
UTMs:
Management status
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Date User
Entered: 8/20/2014 cthomson
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Resource Detail: P-10-006142
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Identifying information
Primary No.: P-10-006142
Trinomial: CA-FRE-003617H
Name: Fresno Block 534 Site
Other IDs: Type Name
Resource Name Fresno Block 534 Site
Cross-refs:
Attributes
Resource type: Site
Age: Historic
Information base: Survey
Attribute codes: AH02 (Foundations/structure pads)
Disclosure: Unrestricted
Collections: No
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
6/27/2011 Dana Slawson and Michael Greenwood and Associates Kay
Associated reports
Report No. Year Title Affiliation
FR-02896 2012 Fresno Fulton Corridor Specific Plan and Greenwood and Associates Downtown Neighborhoods Community Plan
Project
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address:
PLSS: T14S R20E SE¼ of NE¼ of Sec. 9 MDBM
UTMs: Zone 11 250648mE 4068582mN NAD83 (NAD not listed) Management status
Database record metadata
Date User
Entered: 12/14/2012 ssjvic
Last modified: 2/23/2023 jdavid5
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Resource Detail: P-10-007206
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Identifying information
Primary No.: P-10-007206
Trinomial: CA-FRE-003902H
Name: Town of Fresno
Other IDs:
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Type Name
Resource Name Town of Fresno
Other BF-SW4-1
Other BF-SW4-2
Other BF-SW4-3
Other BF-SW4-4
Other BF-SW4-6
Other BF-SW4-8
Other S-SW4-1
Other S-SW4-2
Other S-SW4-5
Other S-SW4-7
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-004268
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007209
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007210
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007211
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007212
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007213
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007214
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007215
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007216
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007217
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007218
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007219
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007220
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007221
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007222
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007223
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007224
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007225
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007248
Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007252
District
Historic
Excavation
AH04 (Privies/dumps/trash scatters); AH05 (Wells/cisterns); AH06 (Water conveyance system); AH07 (Roads/trails/railroad grades); HP46 (Walls/gates/fences) Not for publication
Yes
unknown
unknown
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
1 3/1/2020 Natalie Lawson, Jennifer PaleoWest Town of Fresno (District Moritz, David Oliver Recording)
7 2/3/2020 Natalie Lawson, Jennifer PaleoWest BF-SW4-1 (Element of District) Moritz, David Oliver
4 3/13/2020 Natalie Lawson, Jennifer PaleoWest BF-SW4-2 (Element of District)
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Moritz, and David Oliver
8 1/18/2020 Natalie Lawson, Jennifer PaleoWest BF-SW4-3 (Element of District) Moritz, and David Oliver
6 2/4/2020 Natalie Lawson, Jennifer PaleoWest BF-SW4-4 (Element of District) Moritz, and David Oliver
5 2/26/2020 Natalie Lawson, Jennifer PaleoWest BF-SW4-6 (Element of District) Moritz, and David Oliver
2 4/20/2020 Natalie Lawson, Jennifer PaleoWest BF-SW4-8 (Element of District) Moritz, and David Oliver
3 4/15/2020 Natalie Lawson, Jennifer PaleoWest S-SW4-1 (Element of District) Moritz, and David Oliver
11 11/28/2019 David Oliver and Jennifer PaleoWest S-SW4-2 (Element of District) Moritz
10 12/3/2019 Jennifer Moritz, David Oliver, PaleoWest S-SW4-5 (Element of District) and Natalie Lawson
9 12/11/2019 Jennifer Moritz, Natalie PaleoWest S-SW4-7 (Element of District) Lawson, and David Oliver
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address:
PLSS: T14S R20E Sec. 4 MDBM
T14S R20E Sec. 3 MDBM
T14S R20E Sec. 9 MDBM
T14S R20E Sec. 10 MDBM
UTMs: Zone 11 250572mE 4069138mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-2)
Zone 11 250656mE 4068865mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-3)
Zone 11 250560mE 4068936mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-4)
Zone 11 250541mE 4068941mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-6)
Zone 11 250621mE 4068994mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-8)
Zone 11 250638mE 4069007mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-8)
Zone 11 250961mE 4069460mN NAD83 (S-SW4-1)
Zone 11 250957mE 4069480mN NAD83 (S-SW4-1)
Zone 11 249945mE 4068225mN NAD83 (S-SW4-2)
Zone 11 249985mE 4068178mN NAD83 (S-SW4-2)
Zone 11 250037mE 4068108mN NAD83 (S-SW4-5)
Zone 11 249753mE 4068452mN NAD83 (S-SW4-7)
Zone 11 250957mE 4069448mN NAD83 (S-SW4-1)
Zone 11 250753mE 4068715mN NAD83 (Town of Fresno 03/2020) Zone 11 250753mE 4068715mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-1)
Zone 11 250599mE 4068905mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-1)
Zone 11 249852mE 4068336mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-2)
Zone 11 249916mE 4068262mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-2)
Zone 11 250617mE 4068394mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-2)
Zone 11 250718mE 4068479mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-2)
Zone 11 250762mE 4068705mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-2)
Zone 11 250682mE 4068817mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-2)
Zone 11 250621mE 4069065mN NAD83 (BF-SW4-2)
Management status
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Resource Detail: P-10-007210
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Identifying information
Primary No.: P-10-007210
Trinomial:
Name: I-SW4-03
Other IDs: Type Name
Resource Name I-SW4-03
Cross-refs: Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007206 Attributes
Resource type: Other
Age: Historic
Information base: Excavation
Attribute codes: AH16 (Other) - ware and plate fragments Disclosure: Not for publication
Collections: No
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
H St between Kern and Tulare Streets
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
1/30/2020 Natalie Lawson, Jennifer PaleoWest
Moritz, and David Oliver
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address:
PLSS: T14S R20E SE¼ of NE¼ of Sec. 9 MDBM
UTMs: Zone 11 250731mE 4068740mN NAD83 (2020 Recording) Management status
Database record metadata
Date User
Entered: 5/27/2021 jdavid5
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Resource Detail: P-10-007211
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Identifying information
Primary No.: P-10-007211
Trinomial:
Name: I-SW4-04
Other IDs: Type Name
Resource Name I-SW4-04
Cross-refs: Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007206 Attributes
Resource type: Other
Age: Historic
Information base: Excavation
Attribute codes: AH16 (Other) - bottle fragment
Disclosure: Not for publication
Collections: Yes
Accession no(s):
Facility: PaleoWest
General notes
North of the intersection of Broadway and Mariposa Streets Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
4/17/2020 Jennifer Moritz, David Oliver PaleoWest
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address:
PLSS: T14S R20E NE¼ of NE¼ of Sec. 9 MDBM
UTMs: Zone 11 250649mE 4069037mN NAD83 (2020 Recording) Management status
Database record metadata
Date User
Entered: 5/27/2021 jdavid5
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Record status: Verified
Resource Detail: P-10-007212
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Identifying information
Primary No.: P-10-007212
Trinomial:
Name: I-SW4-05
Other IDs: Type Name
Resource Name I-SW4-05
Cross-refs: Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007206 Attributes
Resource type: Other
Age: Historic
Information base: Excavation
Attribute codes: AH16 (Other) - amethyst glass
Disclosure: Not for publication
Collections: Yes
Accession no(s):
Facility: Paleowest
General notes
On Broadway Street, between Fresno Street and Mariposa Street Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
3/11/2020 Jennifer Moritz, David Oliver PaleoWest
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address:
PLSS: T14S R20E NE¼ of NE¼ of Sec. 9 MDBM
UTMs: Zone 11 250623mE 4069072mN NAD83 (2020 Recording) Management status
Database record metadata
Date User
Entered: 5/27/2021 jdavid5
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Resource Detail: P-10-007223
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Identifying information
Primary No.: P-10-007223
Trinomial: CA-FRE-003904H
Name: S-SW4-3
Other IDs: Type Name
Resource Name S-SW4-3
Cross-refs: Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007206 Attributes
Resource type: Site
Age: Historic
Information base: Excavation
Attribute codes: AH04 (Privies/dumps/trash scatters)
Disclosure: Not for publication
Collections: Yes
Accession no(s): NA
Facility: NA
General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
2/5/2020 Jennifer Moritz, Natalie PaleoWest
Lawson, and David Oliver
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address:
PLSS: T14S R20E SE¼ of NE¼ of Sec. 9 MDBM
UTMs: Zone 11 250727mE 4068491mN NAD83 (2/5/2020 Recording) Management status
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Date User
Entered: 6/14/2021 jdavid5
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Resource Detail: P-10-007224
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Identifying information
Primary No.: P-10-007224
Trinomial:
Name: BF-SW4-5
Other IDs: Type Name
Resource Name BF-SW4-5
Cross-refs: Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007206 Physically overlaps or intersects 10-007221
Attributes
Resource type: Structure
Age: Historic
Information base: Excavation, Other
Attribute codes: AH07 (Roads/trails/railroad grades) - Trolley grade Disclosure: Not for publication
Collections: No
Accession no(s):
Facility:
General notes
Recording events
Date Recorder(s) Affiliation Notes
4/13/2020 Natalie Lawson, Jennifer PaleoWest
Moritz, David Oliver, Tara
Redinger
Associated reports
Location information
County: Fresno
USGS quad(s): Fresno South
Address:
PLSS: T14S R20E SE¼ of SE¼ of Sec. 4 MDBM
T14S R20E NE¼ of NE¼ of Sec. 9 MDBM
T14S R20E NE¼ of SW¼ of Sec. 3 MDBM
UTMs: Zone 11 251445mE 4069865mN NAD83 (4/13/2020 (NE Extent of feature)) Zone 11 250812mE 4069223mN NAD83 (4/13/2020 (SW extent of feature)) Management status
Database record metadata
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IJ
887 Fulton Street (Former Berkeley’s Building) Section 106 Inventory and Evaluation Report Department of Parks and Recreation 523 Series Form
Appendix E Department of Parks and Recreation 523
Series Form
Project: 203724380 37
State of California—The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial #
NRHP Status Code 6Z
Other Listings
Review Code Reviewer Date
P1. Other Identifier: Former Berkeley’s Building
*P2. Location: � Not for Publication Unrestricted
*a. County Fresno b. USGS 7.5' Quad Fresno South Date 1981 T 14S R 20E Sec B.M. c. Address 887 Fulton Street City Fresno Zip 93721
d. UTM: (Give more than one for large and/or linear resources) 11S 250931 mE/ 4068835 mN e. Other Locational Data: (e.g., parcel #, directions to resource, elevation, decimal degrees, etc., as appropriate) *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries)
887 Fulton Street is a multi-level two-part commercial block building constructed in the Mid-Century Modern style (Figure 1 through Figure 12). The building has a concrete foundation, rectangular plan, and a flat roof with what appears to be aluminum coping. Two façades of the building, those that face Fulton and Kern Streets, are clad in split-face concrete brick and have tile cladding at the base of the building over the concrete foundation. Near the center of each of these façades is a recessed entryway to the building. Each entryway has one set of glazed double doors below a transom. The façades each have multiple large, fixed-pane glass display windows on the ground level, which are currently boarded over. The Fulton Street side has three display windows and the Kern Street side has three display windows and two additional rectangular windows. The display windows and entryways are protected by a cantilevered segmental arch vault concrete canopy. In the center of the Kern Street façade is a large rectangular window with 12 panes that spans almost the full height of the building (see Continuation Sheet).
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*P7. Owner and Address:
Successor Agency to the Fresno Redevelopment
Agency, 848 M Street, 3rd Floor (Inyo entrance),
Fresno, CA 93721
*P8. Recorded by: (Name, affiliation, and
address) Madeline Josa and Rebecca Riggs
Stantec Consulting Services, Inc.
300 Montgomery St, Suite 1200
San Francisco, CA 94104
*P9. Date Recorded: October 16, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Stantec Consulting
Services Inc., Former Berkeley Building (887
Fulton Street) Section 106 Inventory and Evaluation Report, prepared for the City of Fresno under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Funding, 2025.
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1 Ward W. Grimes, “Berkeley’s Will Open In New Quarters,” Fresno Bee, April 9, 1961, 41-F.
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*Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) 887 Fulton Street *NRHP Status Code 6Z
B1. Historic Name: Berkeley’s department store, Berkeley Building B2. Common Name: 887 Fulton Street
B3. Original Use: Commercial B4. Present Use: Vacant
*B5. Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern
*B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations) The property at 887 Fulton Street was constructed in 1961 ( Figure 13). The building was designed by Fresno architect Alastair Simpson.
The interior was designed by Los Angeles firm Burke, Kober and Nicolais, and the contractor was the Harris Construction Company. The total cost of the building was $1.2 million. The building was owned by the Rowell Company, O. J. Woodward and the T. W. Patterson Building Company. It was not purpose-built for Berkeley’s department store, but store owner Gilbert C. Berkeley was the first person to lease the building.
2 *B7. Moved? No �Yes �Unknown Date: Original Location: __N/A_________ *B8. Related Features: none
B9a. Architect: Alastair Simpson b. Builder: Harris Construction Company *B10. Significance: Theme N/A Area N/A
Period of Significance N/A Property Type N/A Applicable Criteria N/A (Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural This intensive survey and evaluation finds 887 Fulton Street does not appear to meet the criteria for listing in the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP) or California Register of Historical Resources ( CRHR). The property has been evaluated in accordance with Section 15064.5(a)(2)-(3) of the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines (CEQA), using the criteria outlined in Section 5024.1 of the California Public Resources Code and does not appear to be a historical resource for the purpose of CEQA (see continuation sheet).
B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) N/A_________ *B12. References: See footnotes
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*B14. Evaluator: Alana Vidmar, Stantec Consulting Services Inc. *Date of Evaluation: November 6, 2025
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2 Grimes, “Berkeley’s Will Open In New Quarters.”
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P3a. Description (Continued):
The façade above the wall shared with 865 Fulton Street and the façade facing the baseball stadium are clad in smooth faced concrete brick. The façade facing the baseball stadium has an unadorned recessed doorway and a vent opening.
The entirety of the exterior of the building has patches of visible mold and water damage, including damage on the concrete canopies.
Figure 1. Fulton Street façade of 887 Fulton Street, facing northwest (Stantec, 2025).
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Figure 2. Fulton Street façade of 887 Fulton Street, facing southwest (Stantec, 2025).
Figure 3. 887 Fulton Street, at left, on the square at the eastern entrance of Chukchansi Park, facing southwest (Stantec, 2025).
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Figure 4. North façade of 887 Fulton Street, facing south (Stantec, 2025).
Figure 5. Detail of north corner of 887 Fulton Street, facing south (Stantec, 2025).
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Figure 6. North façade of 887 Fulton Street, facing east (Stantec, 2025).
Figure 7. The north façade entrance to the building, at right, facing southeast (Stantec, 2025).
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Figure 8. Detail of the cantilevered concrete canopy on the north façade of the building, facing northeast (Stantec, 2025).
Figure 9. West corner of 887 Fulton Street, facing east (Stantec, 2025).
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Figure 10. Detail of the cladding materials at the west corner of 887 Fulton Street, facing east (Stantec, 2025).
Figure 11. Rear of 887 Fulton Street on Homerun Alley, at left, facing north (Stantec, 2025).
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Figure 12. Entrance to 887 Fulton Street on Homerun Alley, facing east (Stantec, 2025). *B6. Construction History (Continued):
Berkeley’s opened as Bruckner’s department store in 1919 and occupied four other locations prior to opening at 887 Fulton Street. The company was an upscale women’s clothing retailer. Berkeley’s owner, Gilbert C. Berkeley, was a proponent of the Downtown Fresno revitalization efforts and construction of Fulton Mall. He served on several local economic boards, including the Hundred Percenters, Fresno Community Council, Fresno Convention Bureau, and Fresno State College Bulldog Boosters. Berkeley hoped to set an example for other business owners by moving to Fulton Mall and investing in the revitalization efforts. During construction of the subject property, Berkeley purchased the building to the south and the department store occupied that building until the new building was completed. 3 Berkeley’s closed its Fulton Mall store in 1982 and relocated to Manchester Center.4 After the store closed, the building was utilized for small events, including a warehouse sale for the Walter Smith company, and a Christmas bazaar sponsored by the Friendship Center for the Blind. 5 In 1991, Nita Shops proposed to remodel the building, which had been vacant since 1982, for use again as a clothing store. The proposed remodel of the ground floor would cost $30,000 to $40,000.
6 Nita Shop liquidated in April 2007, and the building at 887 Fulton Street has since been vacant. 7 The property was purchased by the City of Fresno in 2007 and then sold to the Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation under a Disposition and Development Agreement in May 2024.8 Little has changed on the exterior of the building with the exception of the removal of “Berkeley’s” signs from the Fulton Street and Kern Street façades and boarding of the windows. 3 Grimes, “Berkeley’s Will Open In New Quarters.”
4 “Berkeley’s will close store,” Fresno Bee, December 14, 1985, E6. 5 Advertisement, “Warehouse Sale Low Prices,” Fresno Bee, September 13, 1982, 4; “Briefly Told,” Fresno Bee, November 30, 1982, B2.
6 Rhoda Fukushima, “Clothier Moving Downtown,” Fresno Bee, August 15, 1991, D1. 7 Advertisement, “Public Auction,” Fresno Bee, April 6, 2007, A14. 8 “$1 vacant building in Fresno to become business incubator,” Fresno Bee, May 6, 2024, 1.
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Figure 13. Berkeley’s department store, 1961.9
B10. Significance (Continued):
Historic Context:
The first Europeans to traverse the region were Spanish explorers led by Gabriel Moraga in 1805 and 1806. They followed two rivers through the valley and named them the Kings River and the San Joaquin River. 10 This was the first
of several Spanish explorations of the San Joaquin Valley in the early nineteenth century and they were followed in 1826 by the first Euro-American explorer to the area, Jedediah Smith. Despite these early explorations, settlement in the area did not occur until after the discovery of gold in California in 1848. 11 Even after California achieved statehood in 1850, present -day Fresno County was largely devoid of Euro-American settlement. The gold rush resulted in a population boom in other parts of the state, turning small outposts and rudimentary towns into the thriving cities like San Francisco, Sacramento, and Stockton. Those who emigrated to California traveled to the foothills in search of gold, and largely ignored any potential the San Joaquin Valley may have held. Early wagon roads utilized routes established by local indigenous populations that extended along the foothills and branched into the mountains. The main route, known as the Stockton-Los Angeles Road, was surveyed and established in 1850 by Lieutenant George Derby. The road ran north-south between the namesake cities, but the San Joaquin Valley remained generally undeveloped.
12 To support these early trails, various improvements were made, and amenities established at points along the route. At this time, the San Joaquin Valley had an expansive wetlands system fed by unchecked rivers that flowed from the mountains running into large bodies of water like the Tulare and Kern lakes, which are dry in modern-day. In the early 9 Grimes, “Berkeley’s Will Open In New Quarters.”
10 Douglas E. Kyle, ed., Historic Spots in California (Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, California, 2002), 88. 11 Kyle, 89.
12 California High-Speed Rail Authority, “California High-Speed Train Project EIR/EIS Historic Property Survey Report:
Fresno to Bakersfield Section,” 2014, 7-1.
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1850s, to facilitate the crossing of these rivers, several ferries were established along the stage route. Hotels, general stores, and other businesses followed, creating the foundations of early townsites in the region.13 At the time of statehood in 1850, present -day Fresno County was divided between Mariposa, Merced and Tulare Counties. Following the decline of the gold rush, miners made their way down into the San Joaquin Valley and settled along established stage routes and near ferry crossings along the Kings and San Joaquin Rivers. One of the first settlements in present-day Fresno County was Rootville, founded in 1851. By 1854, it was renamed Millerton and when Fresno County was formed in 1856, it became the first county seat. It remained the county seat until 1874, when many of the residents abandoned the town and relocated to the newly founded town of Fresno, which was subsequently named the county seat.
14 The Southern Pacific Railroad (SPRR) began quickly laying tracks through the San Joaquin Valley in 1870, and Fresno was founded as a station along the tracks. SPRR purchased the land for the town from the German Syndicate and a three-square mile area was surveyed and plotted as a town with space for a train station and a courthouse in 1872. After the completion of the railroad through the new town, Fresno quickly grew to include a general store, hotel, restaurants, and a post office.
15 As more people moved to the area, the Fresno Canal and Irrigation Company completed construction on a series of large irrigations canals to facilitate the use of the arid land for agriculture. The predominant crops included grapes, cotton, figs, and citru s fruits. Fresno was incorporated in 1885 and the success of agriculture in the area continued the growth of the population of Fresno into the turn of the twentieth century.16 The agricultural industry that surrounded Fresno led to the construction of processing plants and manufacturing facilities for agricultural goods, including fruits, grains, and livestock. Fresno’s proximity to the railroad fueled the development of industrial areas in southern Fresno in the early twentieth century. 17 After World War I, the boundaries of the city were expanded to the north and east to accommodate the construction of new residential neighborhoods. Growth of the local economy and population slowed during the Great Depression, but experienced an uptick between 1940 and 1950, when the population of Fresno increased by 30,000.
18 Development in Fresno continued to increase in the Post -War period.
The move and expansion of the Golden State Highway in 1948 provided an industrial connection between the nearby railroad and the new freeway and spurred the construction of new industrial buildings in southern Fresno.19 Fulton Mall Development
In the 1960s and 1970s, following World War II and its immediate aftermath, there was a movement across the United States to revitalize and redevelop the downtown centers of cities and towns. The City of Fresno was an early adopter of this movement, and its downtown revitalization plan served as a model for other cities across the United States. 20 Beginning in 1958, business owners in downtown Fresno were dismayed by dwindling sales, and an extensive economic study proved their fears were not unfounded. As a result, the City of Fresno decided to create a comprehensive plan to revitalize the entire Central Business District.21 The plan, known as the Fresno Plan, was primarily developed by Victor Gruen and Associates, and included a six -block outdoor pedestrian mall known as Fulton Mall. The Fulton Mall was designed in tandem with Garrett Eckbo, championed as a pioneer in modern ist landscape design. 22 Victor Gruen and 13 California High-Speed Rail Authority, 7-2.
14 Page & Turnbull, Inc., “Historic Properties Survey Report for South Stadium Project Area, Phase I Area, Fresno California,” Prepared for Forest City Residential West, Inc., 2008, 5. 15 Kyle, Douglas E., Historic Spots in California, fifth edition (Stanford University Press, 2002), 92. 16 Page & Turnbull, Inc., 7.
17 California High-Speed Rail Authority, 7-8.
18 Page & Turnbull, Inc., 9.
19 California High-Speed Rail Authority, 7-9.
20 RHAA Landscape Architecture, “Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS) Fulton Mall, Fresno, California,” prepared for City of Fresno and California Department of Transportation, District 6, 2015. 21 Western City Magazine, “Fresno’s Mall In The Making,” published August, 1964. 22 Page & Turnbull, Inc., “Historic Properties Survey Report for South Stadium Project Area, Phase I Area, Fresno California,” prepared for Forest City Residential West, Inc. 2008.
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Associates released an illustrated comprehensive plan for the Fulton Mall in January 1960 for the City of Fresno, and construction to redesign traffic patterns began within a few months .23 Shortly after, businesses began moving into the buildings along Fulton Mall as early as 1961, including the Berkeley Department Store to 887 Fulton Street. 24 Construction of the pedestrian mall portion of the project began in the beginning of 1964 and was completed later that same year. The Fulton Mall officially opened to the public on September 1, 1964, and was hailed as an exemplary effort in urban renewal and downtown revitalization.
25 The Fulton Mall received numerous design awards and honors from architecture institutes and federal government departments. Due to its early success in the nationwide trend of downtown city revitalization, representatives from other American cities traveled to Fresno to see and learn from the Fulton Mall’s design and development. The Fulton Mall was successful and popular for several years following its construction but began to decline as early as the beginning of the 1970s.
26 Further development and expansion of the area surrounding the mall failed to occur in the 1970s, resulting in a lack of economic growth of the Fulton Mall. In addition, a new indoor shopping mall, called Fashion Fair, opened in north Fresno in 1970. The opening of the indoor mall did not benefit the development of the Fulton Mall. Many retailers chose to move away from the downtown Fulton Mall and move towards the suburban Fashion Fair, resulting in most of the original Fulton Mall retailers being gone by the early 1980s. The Fulton Mall continued to decline over the course of the 1980s. 27 In 2014, the Fresno City Council voted to reopen Fulton Street to automobile traffic in an effort to again revitalize the Fulton Mall. The project was undertaken in 2016 to upgrade sidewalks, provide street parking, install new streetlights and traffic signals, and install wayfinding signage. The project also restored and replaced street art along Fulton Street and improved landscaping. Fulton Street re- opened in October 2017. 28 Efforts to bring businesses and residential
development to Downtown Fresno have been ongoing.29
Evaluation
887 Fulton Street was previously recorded and evaluated as part of the Historical Resources Evaluation Report for the Fulton Mall Reconstruction Project and was recommended not eligible for listing in the NRHP. This evaluation concurs with the previous NRHP recommendation, as well as recommending 887 Fulton Street not eligible for listing in the CRHR. 887 Fulton Street is not significantly associated with events that have made a significant contribution to broad patterns in local, state, or national history. 887 Fulton Street was constructed during the revitalization efforts in Downtown Fresno and development of Fulton Mall from 1960 to 1970. Mere association with these events is not enough to qualify the property for inclusion in the NRHP. Research did not reveal that 887 Fulton Street is significantly associated with Downtown Fresno revitalization efforts or the Fulton Mall development. The building was not purpose- built for the Berkeley’s department store, and research did not reveal that the store was significant in commercial history. Therefore, 887 Fulton Street is recommended not eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR under Criterion A/1. 23 “Downtown Fresno (Fulton Corridor) Historic Resources Survey,” prepared for the City of Fresno, 2011; Western City Magazine, “Fresno’s Mall In The Making.”
24 “Downtown Fresno (Fulton Corridor) Historic Resources Survey”; Page & Turnbull, Inc., “Historic Properties Survey Report.”
25 Page & Turnbull, Inc., “Historic Properties Survey Report.” 26 Page & Turnbull, Inc., “Historic Properties Survey Report.” 27 Page & Turnbull, Inc., “Historic Properties Survey Report.” 28 City of Fresno, “City of Fresno Celebrates the Grand Re-opening of Fulton Street,” 2017, https://www.fresno.gov/news/city-of-fresno-celebrates-the-grand-re-opening-of-fulton-street/. 29 Marek Warszawski, “Revitalization of downtown Fresno stuck in second gear. What’s the hold up?,” Fresno Bee, July 25, 2025, https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/marek-warszawski/article311282595.html.
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887 Fulton Street was not found to be associated with the lives of persons significant in local, state, or national history.
The building was owned by several individuals and companies – Rowell Company, O. J. Woodward and the T. W.
Patterson Building Company – but is most closely associated with Gilbert C. Berkeley as the owner of Berkeley’s department store, the longest occupant of the building. Berkeley moved to Fresno from New York City in 1943, and shortly after began work at B ruckner’s department store. He and his wife Miriam Slater Berkeley purchase Bruckner’s and renamed the store Berkeley’s before the store moved to 887 Fulton Street . He was active in civic and commercial affairs in Fresno and was a successful business owner. Research did not reveal, however, any specific impacts Berkeley had on commerce in Fresno that can be tied to the building at 887 Fulton Street. He was one of several business owners who supported the Downtown Fresno revitalization and construction of Fulton Mall. Therefore, 887 Fulton Street is recommended not eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR under Criterion B/2. 887 Fulton Street does not embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction. The building was designed in the Mid-Century Modern style, the most common architectural style in the post -war era. The style was typically applied to smaller-scale commercial properties such as offices, restaurants, and shopping centers.30 The building at 887 Fulton Street is a typical example of the style. It is not an excellent example of the style because it does not articulate a particular design concept or exhibit a high quality of design that embodies the integral characteristics of the style. For this reason, the building also does not possess high artistic value. The building does not represent the work of a master. Designer Victor Gruen designed master plans for several shopping centers across the United States but was not the designer of this building. Local architect Alastair Simpson worked for several firms and partnerships before establishing his own firm in 1953. His work throughout the San Joaquin Valley was extensive. He is best known for his design of his own home in Fresno, the Frazier Mountain Park Elementary School in Frazier Mountain, the Fresno Community Hospital complex, and several other hospitals and educational facilities.31 The building at 887 Fulton Street is not recognized in literature as one of his most notable projects and is not an important example of his work. Both the interior designers Burke, Kober and Nicolais and contractor Harris Construction Company were prolific firms that designed properties throughout California. The building at 887 Fulton Street is not a significant example of the work of either firm. The building does not represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction. In 2013, Fulton Mall was evaluated for listing in the NRHP as potential historic district. The study concluded that the Fulton Mall corridor does not retain sufficient integrity to constitute a historic district. 32 For these
reasons, the subject property is recommended not eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR under Criterion C/3. 887 Fulton Street is not a source or likely source of important information regarding history , building materials, construction techniques, or advancements in architecture or engineering. Such buildings are well documented in the historic record and use common construction materials and techniques that would not be deemed significant. Therefore, the subject property is recommended not eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR under Criterion D/4. The subject property was not evaluated for archaeological significance.
The subject property is recommended not eligible for listing in the NRHP/CRHR under any criteria and so an evaluation of integrity is not warranted. 30 City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Citywide Historic Context Statement: Context: Architecture and Engineering, Sub- Context: L.A. Modernism, 1919-1980 (Department of City Planning, Los Angeles, 2021), 128, 143. 31 Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD), “Alastair Simpson (Architect),” available online at https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/3304/ (accessed November 7, 2025); “Simpson, Alastair,” Fresno Bee, December 10, 1992, B8.
32 P. Travis and Phillip Vallejo, California Department of Parks and Recreation District Record for Potential Fulton Street/Fulton Mall Historic District, 2013, on file at Fresno County Public Library, Fresno.
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