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The old courthouse and county jail at Millerton the first in Fresno County abandoned seven years after it was built- Sept 24 1874.

The University Street Playhouse opened in 1935 as part of Fresno State College campus at University and Van Ness Avenues. The campus now houses Fresno City College. The building was previously used as the Trinity Episcopal Methodist Church. From 1935…

An exterior view of the Parlor Lecture Clubhouse. It was located at 1350 Van Ness Ave.

Built in 1889-1890 by Robert Barton a local vineyardist, the Barton Opera House was a state of the art theater facility. The Opera House had a capacity of 1600 seats. The building was located at the corner of Fresno and J(Fulton) Street.

Orignally built as the home for William N. Oothout on his 560 acre Sunnyside Estate where he plated the first Thompson Seedless grapes. In 1911, 9 men bought a portion of the estate and mansion to build a golf course. The Sunnyside Country Club . It…

A typical day at the turn of the century. A man and woman are walking into Courthouse Park on Mariposa Street having just crossed K Street. The Boy with the Leaking Boot Fountain can be seen on the right, the Temple Bar Building behind it.

A look down J Street (now Fulton) looking towards Tulare and Mariposa cross streets. The photographer is standing just south of the Sequoia Hotel and its adjacent Forsyth building. You can see the Fresno Traction Company's electric street cars…

Standing at the south-east corner of Courthouse Park at Tulare and K Street looking south-east on Tulare. The new Post Office building is on the right with the Patterson block behind it. The Fresno Republican Building is on the left side of Tulare…

In 1877, a young man Leopold Gundlefinger (seated, center) and others helped form a volunteer fire "hook and ladder" company". Mr. Gundlefinger was Fresno's first foreman fighting fires with a wagon loaded with ladders, ropes, axes, and buckets.