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Fulton Mall

Fresno Fulton Mall
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Fulton Mall

Credit

Tim Davis, The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Site overview

Fulton Mall is a pedestrian mall and urban park in downtown Fresno, California, that was created in 1964 by excluding vehicular traffic from six blocks of Fulton Street as well as some segments of three of the streets that transected Fulton. The Fulton Mall was designed by Garrett Eckbo as the centerpiece of the plan by Victor Gruen and Associates to transform Fresno’s downtown area. As specified in the earliest planning stages, Fulton Street, at one time Fresno’s main shopping street, was to be “converted into a high-quality dense activity pedestrian Mall” (Victor Gruen and Associates, Central Area Fresno, California, vol. 1, Research and Basic Planning, March 16, 1959). (taken from the National Register Nomination prepared by the Downtown Fresno Coalition).

Primary classification

Landscape (LND)

Secondary classification

Recreation (REC)

Designations

Determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places on August 20, 2010.

Listed in the California Register of Historical Resources pursuant to Section 4851(a)(2) of the Public Resources Code.

How to Visit

Open to the public

Location

1025 Fulton Mall
Fresno, CA, 93721

Country

US

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Credit:

Tim Davis, The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Designer(s)

Garrett Eckbo

Landscape Designer

Nationality

American

Victor Gruen

Architect

Nationality

American

Completion

1964

References

http://www.1000friendsoffresno.org/Fulton-mall.pdf

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