Fresno Pacific Towers, High-rise neoclassical building in downtown Fresno, California.
The Pacific Southwest Building, also called the Security Bank Building, is a 15-story, 67 m (220 ft) high-rise in downtown Fresno, California, completed in 1925. Its tower antenna reaches 315 ft (96 m). The building is the tallest in Fresno and was built in the Neoclassical style.
Construction of the Pacific Southwest Building took eighteen months and cost $1,200,000 as the headquarters of the Fidelity branch of the Pacific-Southwest Trust and Savings Bank. Fresno banker William Sutherland, the bank's president, was instrumental in planning and building it, and the bank moved its offices there in 1925. A beacon on the tower originally warned farmers within a 30-mile radius of frost.
The tower's beacon once warned farmers across a 30-mile radius of frost, tying the bank headquarters to the surrounding agricultural economy. Fresno banker William Sutherland, president of the Pacific Southwest Trust and Savings Bank, drove its planning and construction, and the bank moved its offices in when the building opened in 1925.
The tower stands in downtown Fresno, between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and its antenna reaches 96 m. The upper floors now hold apartments, so visitors see the exterior and lobby rather than the residences. The building is the tallest in Fresno, making it a useful orientation point in the city centre.
A beacon on top of the tower once warned farmers of frost within a 30-mile radius, and the tower's antenna reaches 315 ft (96 m). The top floors now hold apartments, lifting occupancy from 5% to 95%.
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