architecture

Look in older parts of Fresno, Bakersfield and other cities, and you're likely to find a Craftsman-style bungalow.

The Streamline Moderne-style building was built in 1940, and once housed a giant neon Coca-Cola sign on its roof.

An acclaimed engineer and the first woman licensed to practice architecture in California, Julia Morgan also designed several Fresno-area buildings.

Funded by FDR's Public Works Administration, the Fresno County Hall of Records opened in 1937. Today it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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The building was a big break from tradition for civic buildings in America. It got national attention when it was new, including in an exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Lee was an acclaimed and prolific designed of movie "palaces." He believed the "show starts on the sidewalk."

At 10 stories tall, the steel-framed office building set the model for most of downtown Fresno's other tall buildings in the following two decades.

Tankhouses were once a common sight with small farms across the San Joaquin Valley.

Victor Gruen invented the suburban American shopping mall. He tried to reinvent Fresno.