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As the world's largest raisin plant, Sunmaid Raisin's Plant Number 4 was a major center for raisin packing in Fresno for nearly fifty years. The plant was constructed between 1918 and 1920 on Hamilton and East Avenues. By 1918 more than 85% of…

People walking towards a fire at Fresno's Southern Pacific Railroad Depot located at Tulare and H streets. This is possibly the 1911 fire that damaged upstairs offices. The depot was constructed entirely of brick and topped with a slate bellcast…

Picture of Smith Mountain Elementary School, located near the intersection of Dinuba Road and Crawford Avenue, near Reedley, Calif. Constructed with Western Stick architectural style ca. 1903. The Smith Mountain District was formed in 1903, was…

Picture of Sentinel Elementary School, located two miles north of the intersection of Morgan Canyon and Tollhouse roads, near Tollhouse, Calif. Western Stick architectural style. The schoolhouse consisted of one room, measured 24 x 28 feet, and was…

Picture of reputedly Selma [Garfield?] Grammar School, built ca. 1915, showing Neoclassical architectural elements.

Picture of Science Building of Selma Union High School located near the corner of Arrants Street and McCall Avenue. This unit of the campus was built in 1923 and demolished in 1953. Norman F. Marsh was the architect. Constructed of reinforced…

Picture of Scandinavian Elementary School, built in 1908 near the intersection of Shields and Sierra Vista avenues, Fresno, Calif. Constructed with Western Stick and Romanesque Revival architectural elements. This brick structure was demolished…

Picture of San Joaquin Elementary School, built in 1919 at San Joaquin, Calif. in Mission Revival architectural style. The structure replaced a one-room schoolhouse which was destroyed by fire in 1918. Another school replaced this complex in 1951.…

Picture of Round Mountain Elementary School, a one-room structure with surrounding veranda constructed in 1884. Western Stick architectural style. This building replaced the first schoolhouse, built in 1872 and destroyed by fire in the early 1880s.…

Picture of Ross Grammar School, built in 1909 on Huntsman Avenue, west of Newmark Avenue, near Parlier, Calif. Western Stick architectural style. The school was vacated in 1951 and the final disposition of the structure is unknown. The Ross District…