38. Warehouse Row Buildings

Wormser Building (1909)
764 P Street
Industrial Brick, Period Revival influence

This building housed the largest furniture outlet in the San Joaquin Valley, the Wormser Furniture Company. With its ideal location along the Santa Fe rail line, direct purchases could be made from every part of the country, making the company a sales leader statewide.

Western Meat Company (1910)
744 P Street
Industrial Brick, Period Revival influence

This building was at one time the Valley's largest poultry processing center. Some 350,000 turkeys and chickens annually were shipped out of this facility for statewide use. A creamery was added in 1917, and a sausage plant and smoke house were added in 1930.

Fresno Consumer's Ice Company (1903)
764 P Street
Eugene H. Mathewson, Architect
Industrial Brick, Period Revival influence

The Fresno Consumer's Ice Company was the first ice plant in the San Joaquin Valley concerned solely with making of ice and the first company to make home deliveries with horse-drawn wagons.

All three of these buildings are in the National Register of Historic Places, and more detailed descriptions are available.

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