{"nrhp_refnum":"78000666","name":"Warehouse Row","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"722, 744, and 764 P St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fresno","county":"Fresno County","state":"CA","lat":36.736110429000064,"lon":-119.77874423699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-03-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Agriculture","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-building historic district of early twentieth-century brick warehouses on a 1.45-acre block beside the Santa Fe Railway tracks in downtown Fresno, California, at 722, 744 and 764 P Street. It includes the Wormser Warehouse, the Swift Co. meat packing plant and the Fresno Consumers Ice Co. building.","why_significant":"The buildings date from Fresno's boom years after irrigation and the arrival of the Santa Fe Railway. They recall the city's early role in agriculture, transportation and commerce. The ice plant, the turkey-processing plant and the furniture warehouse each represent a distinct commercial enterprise, and the Wormser Warehouse is described as one of the best-preserved examples of Fresno's turn-of-the-century commercial architecture.","narrative":"Three brick industrial buildings on a block beside the Santa Fe Railway tracks in downtown Fresno make up Warehouse Row. The Wormser Warehouse (1903-04), the Swift Co. meat packing plant (1910) and the Fresno Consumers Ice Co. building (1903) share arched double-hung windows with radiating brick trim and 8-inch brick walls. They went up as irrigation and the railway turned Fresno County into a leading agricultural area, and the county's population nearly doubled between 1900 and 1910. The ice company was the first plant in Fresno devoted solely to ice and the first to deliver to homes; it later became cold storage. The meat plant shifted to turkey processing, linked to a hatchery and an eviscerating plant by a tunnel under P Street, and operated until 1960. The furniture warehouse belonged to Sigmund Wormser's business, which grew into one of California's largest of its kind. Restoration of the group began in the mid-1970s.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"T.J. Hammond (Fresno Consumers Ice Co. building, 1903)","architectural_style":"Brick commercial warehouse architecture, with some Queen Anne brick detailing on the ice house cornice","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition rated good; the form describes ongoing restoration and renovation of the buildings as a shopping complex with a museum, and the property is marked occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.855017-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/78000666.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858707","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/fresno-county/warehouse-row-78000666/"}