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| Rehorn Home and Sherri |
Adventure: 003, Site 074-Rehorn Home
National Registry of Historic Places ID: 82002177
Local Registry ID:90
Team: YOLT
Date: September 15, 2013
Location:
Coordinates:
36.741436° N, 119.781567° W
Address: 1050 S
Street, Fresno, CA
Description:
Date Built: 1906
Architect: A. C. Swartz
In a lot of ways, this house symbolizes Fresno. Rehorn was an early contractor/builder in the Fresno area. He was an anti-union builder, who lead both the builders of the era and the anti-union forces in Fresno. Work on this house was stopped three times during its building because of union protests. Once Rehorn's office was burnt to the ground. After Rehorn's death the Holland family bought the house and it was eventually sold to the Catholic Church. It was a turned into a convent. In 1973 it became the Villa Carmel House-a house for unwed mothers. But within a year, it was abandoned and was used for communal student housing, which lefts its own particular mark on the house. Finally in 1976, it was purchased by a couple of local architects and remodeled and used for their offices.
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| Front Steps of Rehorn House |
Rehorn Home (1906)
1050 S Street
A.
C. Swartz, Architect
Georgian Revival
The Rehorn Home, begun in late 1904 or early 1905, was one of
several mansions built in the Cathedral District by prominent members
of the lumber and building industries. Frank Rehorn (1862-1916) was a
pioneer building contractor who figured heavily in the growth of
Fresno from its early days as a shack town to its emergence as the
San Joaquin Valley's first high-rise city.
After Rehorn's death, the home was sold to H. H. Holland (1872-1941). The Holland family sold the residence to the Roman Catholic diocese after H. H. Holland's death in 1941, and it was used as a convent by the Sisters of the Holy Cross until 1970. By 1973, the home had been in use for several years as the Villa Carmel Home for unwed mothers. The house sat vacant in 1974, until it fell prey to the communal student housing craze, which left its own set of hallucinatory markings on the old residence. Architects Allen Y. Lew and William E. Patnaude purchased the Rehorn residence in 1976, and launched an ambitious rehabilitation project to restore the dilapidated structure for use as their architectural office.
References:
- Guide
to Historic Fresno
- NoeHill
- National Registry of Historic Places: Documentation
and Pictures
Overall Landmark References:
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