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Building Image Location First built Use Notes Russian-American Magazin: Kodiak, Alaska: 1810 storage facility Oldest building in Alaska [1] Church of the Holy Ascension: Unalaska, Alaska: 1826 Church Earliest surviving Russian church in Alaska Russian Bishop's House: Sitka, Alaska: 1841-1843 Church Early Russian architecture Russian-American ...
It was built out of hewn logs in 1903 by Charles H. Anway, the first homesteader to settle in the Haines area. When first built, the cabin was L-shaped with a cross-gable roof with wood shingles. Anway later extended the building, giving it a T shape, and added a layer of metal from flattened cans; the roof has since been covered in galvanized ...
Built in 1930, it was also the first two-story building in the community, and the first to be built from a kit, a building method later widely adopted in Arctic Alaska. The kit was configured in Seattle, Washington , shipped by freighter to Utqiaġvik, and assembled by local Native Alaskan workers under the supervision of Dr. Henry Greist.
The Hodge Building was part of a larger project meant to include the construction of ten other similar buildings for military use. Construction started with the Hodge Building, along with the Buckner Building 660 yards (600 m) to the northeast, with both opening in 1957. Despite the ambitious plan, these buildings were the only two to be built ...
The bath/store building was quickly replaced and would later become home to Pelican's first school. One of the first major construction sites was a two-story multipurpose building. On the first floor a kitchen and mess hall occupied one end with the office, store and later the post office on the other side. The upper floor was used for a bunkhouse.
William Oefelein (born 1965), Alaska's first astronaut. His first mission, STS-116. Commander Oefelein, who attended West Anchorage High School, received his commission from Aviation Officer Candidate School in 1988. Sarah Palin (born 1964), Alaska's youngest governor, first female governor and Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008.
Office and residence of Alaska's governor, 1909 A different view of the Alaska Governor's Mansion, 2009. A totem pole is next to the building, on the right side. The original budget for the 2½-story 12,900-square-foot (1,200 m 2) frame structure and furnishing was $40,000 and included planned servants quarters and a territorial museum on the third floor which were never built.
Alaska is the least densely populated state, and one of the most sparsely populated areas in the world, at 1.2 inhabitants per square mile (0.46/km 2), with the next state, Wyoming, at 5.8 inhabitants per square mile (2.2/km 2). [76] Alaska is by far the largest U.S. state by area, and the tenth wealthiest (per capita income). [77]