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Title: O'Brien house, 136-138 North Roosevelt Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, California (5 views)
Creator: Tateishi, Don
Contributor: Nayyar, Margo
Historic American Buildings Survey
Date Created and/or Issued: 1992
Publication Information: San Francisco, Calif. : Historic American Building Survey, Pacific West Region, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: View 1 (2013-1546). General view of east of west facade, looking from west side of North Roosevelt Avenue. CA-2882-1 -- view 2 (2013-1547). General view northeast of south and west facades, looking slightly southwest. CA-2882-2. Van in foreground -- view 3 (2013-1548). General view southeast of North and west facades, looking slightly northwest. CA-2882-3 -- view 4 (2013-1549). Distant view, looking southeast from the State Route 180 Freeway, view of north and west facades (looking from slightly higher elevation). CA-2882-4 -- view 5 (2013-1550). Detail view looking northeast to top of west facade, second story window and gable decoration. CA-2882-5.
Accompanied by: O'Brien house, 136-138 North Roosevelt Avenue, Fresno, Fresno County, California : photographs, written historical and descriptive data / Margo Nayyar, Research Associate ; photographs taken by Don Tateishi in March 1992. San Francisco, CA : Historic American Building Survey, Pacific West Region, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 2012. 9, [1] p. ; 28 cm. HABS No. CA-2882. Includes bibliographic references (p. 9).
Maurice O'Brien built the house in the early 1890's. He had immigrated to the United States from Canada along with members of his family. House is an example of a vernacular house with simplified Eastlake stylistic details.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 5 photographic prints ; 10 x 8 in.and 8 x 10 in.
Identifier: (C)001500311CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: O'Brien, Maurice--Homes and haunts--Photographs
Houses--California--Fresno
Automobiles--California--Fresno
Porches--California--Fresno
Gables--California--Fresno
Fresno (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Fresno
Fresno (Calif.)

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