Alternative names Fresno Main Courthouse Architectural style New Formalism Owner County of Fresno | Type Courthouse Completed 1966 | |
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Location 1100 Van Ness Avenue
Fresno, California | ||
The Fresno County Courthouse is an 8-storey, 60.96 m (200.0 ft) low-rise building at 1100 Van Ness Avenue in downtown Fresno, California. Construction was completed on the building was in 1966 on the site of–and replacing–the previous neo-classical style courthouse that was completed in 1875. Architectural historian David Gebhardt said of the loss of the old courthouse to the current one, "insipid."
A $113 million seismic retrofit was scheduled to be completed in 2015.
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