{"nrhp_refnum":"82000963","name":"Bank of Italy","other_names":["Bank of America on Fulton Mall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1015 Fulton Mall","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fresno","county":"Fresno County","state":"CA","lat":36.73394170000006,"lon":-119.79053437799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story steel and concrete office building faced with brown brick and terra cotta at 1015 Fulton Mall (corner of Tulare Street) in downtown Fresno, California. The tower was built in 1917-18 as the Bank of Italy, with a two-story rear wing added in 1928.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an excellent architectural example of its type and period and the city's finest example of Renaissance Revival styling, with exquisite terra cotta detailing. It was built during a local building boom and housed the Bank of Italy, later Bank of America, one of Fresno's most important financial institutions. It was designed by the noted local firm Richard F. Felchlin and Company.","narrative":"Rising eight stories at the corner of Fulton Mall and Tulare Street in downtown Fresno, this brick and terra cotta office tower was built in 1917-18 for the Bank of Italy, with a two-story wing added at the rear in 1928. Its design draws on Italian Renaissance models, with a rusticated terra cotta base, arched openings, ornamental spandrel panels, Florentine arches at the top and a heavy bracketed cornice. The lobby keeps its decorative plaster ceiling, marble floor and staircase, etched brass elevator doors and mahogany stair rails. The building was designed by Richard F. Felchlin and Company, a local firm responsible for many of Fresno's major office buildings. It went up as Fresno was becoming the center of the San Joaquin Valley's agricultural economy, and the bank's opening drew its president, A. P. Giannini, to the city. The bank later became the Bank of America. The nomination describes it as the city's finest Renaissance Revival building.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific dates 1918 and 1928)","architect_builder":"R. F. Felchlin Company (Richard F. Felchlin and Company)","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival (Italian Renaissance design sources)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and vacant at the time of nomination; condition rated good and unaltered, with a rehabilitation project planned. The interior lobby retains its original features.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.232087-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82000963.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82000963/70cf21c4ad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82000963/70cf21c4ad-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Bobak Ha'Eri","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2009-0725-CA-Fresno-BankofItaly.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobak Ha'Eri</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2009-0725-CA-Fresno-BankofItaly.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858631","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Italy_(Fresno,_California)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4856132"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/fresno-county/bank-of-italy-82000963/"}