Fresno County Courthouse

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| building_name = Fresno County Courthouse

| image = Fresno county courthouse.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| alternate_names = Fresno Main Courthouse

| location = 1100 Van Ness Avenue
Fresno, California

| coordinates = {{coord|36.7364|-119.7891|region:US-CA_type:landmark|display=title,inline}}

| start_date =

| completion_date = 1966

| building_type = Courthouse

| architectural_style = New Formalism

| roof = {{convert|200|ft|m|abbr=on}}

| floor_count = 8
2 below ground

| elevator_count = 5

| cost =

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| architect = WALTER WAGNER & PARTNERS, who were Paul Harris, Project Architect, James Blayney, Paul Schoenwald, Will Thomas, and Harry Bode

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| owner = County of Fresno

| management = County of Fresno

| references = {{Cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/127095 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307043304/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/127095 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 7, 2016 |title=Emporis building ID 127095 |work=Emporis}}{{SkyscraperPage|24578}}{{Structurae|20048802}}

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The Fresno County Courthouse is an 8-story, {{convert|200|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} high-rise building at 1100 Van Ness Avenue in downtown Fresno, California that serves as the main location for the Fresno County Superior Court.

Construction was completed on the building in 1966 on the site of, and replacing, the previous neo-classical style courthouse that was built in 1875.{{Cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/341857 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307024621/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/341857 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 7, 2016 |title=Old Fresno County Courthouse |work=Emporis}}{{cite web | url=http://puam.princeton.edu/lifeanddeathofbuildings/section/introduction/fresnocountycourthous | title=The Life and Death of Buildings | publisher=Princeton University Art Museum | accessdate=21 October 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113112224/http://puam.princeton.edu/lifeanddeathofbuildings/section/introduction/fresnocountycourthous | archive-date=13 January 2013 | url-status=dead }} Architectural historian David Gebhardt said of the loss of the old courthouse to the current one, "insipid."{{cite news | author=Carl Nolte | author-link=Carl Nolte | title=58 California icons: Every county courthouse has a tale to tell | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | date=13 April 2002 | url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/58-California-icons-Every-county-courthouse-has-2851760.php#photo-2227864 | accessdate=21 October 2012}}

The courthouse is connected to the Fresno County Jail underground through a system of tunnels providing easy and safe transportation of inmates.{{cite web|url=https://www.co.fresno.ca.us/home/showdocument?id=17030|title=An Assessment of Staffing at the Fresno County Detention.}}{{cite web|url=http://www2.co.fresno.ca.us/0440/BidDocuments/952-5194/952-5194%20Exhibit%20A.pdf|title=Correctional Facility Information.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.co.fresno.ca.us/home/showdocument?id=13233|title=Fresno County Jail System Assessment.}}

A $113 million seismic retrofit was scheduled to be completed in 2015.{{cite web | author=Office of Court Construction and Management | title=Fresno County Courthouse Renovation

| url=http://www.courts.ca.gov/facilities-fresno-renovate.htm#tab3449 | publisher=Administrative Office of the Courts | year=2012 | accessdate=21 October 2012}}

The V-LINE bus stops here, providing connections to Visalia six times daily https://ridevline.com/schedule/