Walking Tour: Wilson Avenue (Fresno, California)

O. J. Woodward Home (1941)

4480 North Wilson Avenue
Franklin & Kump, Architects
John Lyon Reid, Architect-in-charge
Colonial Revival

This idiosyncratic Colonial Revival-style house was project-managed by John Lyon Reid, an MIT Professor who left Boston to work for Franklin & Kump in Fresno. He was given the Woodward project since the others in the firm assumed he knew something about eastern Colonial architecture, having studied and taught in Boston. In actuality, he was a modernist who was raised in Fresno, had graduated from Fresno High School, then completed his Bachelor's at UC Berkeley and Master's at MIT.

O. J. Woodward was a Harvard M.B.A., and managed the Woodward family real estate holdings. Interested in the raising and training of dogs, he was active in the Fresno Humane Society.

The home has undergone minor modifications and additions, including a sun room on the east side.

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