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Photo, Print, Drawing Forty Acres, Rodrigo Terronez Memorial Clinic, 30172 Garces Highway, Delano, Kern County, CA Rodrigo Terronez Clinic

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About this Item

Title

  • Forty Acres, Rodrigo Terronez Memorial Clinic, 30172 Garces Highway, Delano, Kern County, CA

Other Title

  • Rodrigo Terronez Clinic

Names

  • Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
  • Chavez, Cesar
  • United Farm Workers (UFW)
  • National Farm Workers Service Center, Inc. (NFWSC)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., Farm Workers Fund
  • Kern County Welfare Department
  • Chavez, Richard
  • Terronez, Rodrigo
  • Kennedy, Theodore
  • Malouf, Molly
  • National Farm Workers Health Group
  • National Health Service Corps
  • Cesar Chavez Foundation
  • Arzola, Robert R., project manager
  • Hoyos, Luis G., faculty sponsor
  • Rast, Raymond W., historian
  • Dahlin, Dennis, consultant
  • Blackman, Sabrina, field team
  • Bradford, Allyson, field team
  • Chang, Frank, field team
  • Garcia, Cynthia, field team
  • Jackson, Chance, field team
  • Schoelles, Leah, field team
  • Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter
  • Lavoie, Catherine C., program manager
  • Arzola, Robert R., project manager
  • California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, contractor
  • Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc., sponsor
  • Rosenthal, James W., photographer
  • McPartland, Mary, transmitter

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

  • -  Hispanic Heritage
  • -  labor unions
  • -  clinics
  • -  civil rights
  • -  medical offices
  • -  Mission Revival architectural elements
  • -  Mexican-Americans
  • -  recycled materials
  • -  health care facilities
  • -  Asian Americans
  • -  women
  • -  adobe buildings
  • -  offices
  • -  farming
  • -  strikes
  • -  political organizations
  • -  protest movements
  • -  California--Kern County--Delano

Latitude / Longitude

  • 35.763875,-119.289436

Notes

  • -  See HABS CA-2878, Forty Acres, for additional information about the site.
  • -  Significance: The Rodrigo Terronez Memorial Clinic is one of four buildings at Forty Acres, a property closely associated with the life of Cesar Chavez and the history of the farm worker movement he led from 1962 until his death in 1993. Located on the outskirts of Delano, California, Forty Acres served as the headquarters of the United Farm Workers (UFW) from 1969 to 1972. The property also served as the farm worker movement’s flagship “service center,” under the auspices of the National Farm Workers Service Center, Inc. (NFWSC), from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Forty Acres was the site of several significant events between 1968 and 1993, and it continues to serve as an important locus of collective memory. Forty Acres was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2008. The Terronez Clinic was the third building constructed at Forty Acres— and the first building constructed with support from the Martin Luther King, Jr., Farm Workers Fund established through the signing of contracts with Delano grape growers in 1970. One of several services managed by the NFWSC, the Terronez Clinic sprang from Cesar Chavez’s recognition that collective action encompassed more than just collective bargaining with employers. The Terronez Clinic and the services it housed reflected the comprehensive vision of self-empowerment that defined the farm worker movement. The clinic building was completed in September 1971 and named in honor of Rodrigo Terronez, one of the union’s first vice presidents. Upon completion, the Terronez Clinic became an important symbol of the farm worker movement’s purpose, growth, and achievements. For Senator Ted Kennedy, a champion of universal access to health care, the Terronez Clinic was an inspiration and source of hope, especially for families whose access to medical services was severely limited. For farm workers themselves, the Terronez Clinic was a product of self-empowerment.
  • -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2080
  • -  Survey number: HABS CA-2878-C
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1971 Initial Construction
  • -  National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 08001090

Medium

  • Photo(s): 15
  • Color Transparencies: 2
  • Measured Drawing(s): 2
  • Data Page(s): 8
  • Photo Caption Page(s): 2

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HABS CA-2878-C

Source Collection

  • Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • ca3946

Rights Advisory

Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers, Inc National Farm Workers Service Center, Jr Martin Luther King, Kern County Welfare Department, Richard Chavez, et al., Rosenthal, James W, photographer. Forty Acres, Rodrigo Terronez Memorial Clinic, 2 Garces Highway, Delano, Kern County, CA. Kern County Delano California, 1933. translateds by Price, Virginia Barrettmitter, and Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/ca3946/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, C., Chavez, C., United Farm Workers, National Farm Workers Service Center, I., Martin Luther King, J., Kern County Welfare Department [...] Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, I., Rosenthal, J. W., photographer. (1933) Forty Acres, Rodrigo Terronez Memorial Clinic, 2 Garces Highway, Delano, Kern County, CA. Kern County Delano California, 1933. Price, V. B. & McPartland, M., transs Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/ca3946/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, et al., photographer by Rosenthal, James W. Forty Acres, Rodrigo Terronez Memorial Clinic, 2 Garces Highway, Delano, Kern County, CA. trans by Price, Virginia Barrettmitter, and Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/ca3946/>.