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1954 - Anchorage High School, Hillcrest Dr, Anchorage, Alaska [10] 1954 - Woodland Park Elementary School (former), W 36th Ave, Anchorage, Alaska [11] Presently occupied as the headquarters of the Boys and Girls Clubs - Alaska. 1956 - Homer High School, E Fairview Ave, Homer, Alaska [2] 1956 - Valdez High School, Empire & Sherman Sts, Valdez ...
The Spenard Farmers' Market and Spenard windmill are located in the parking lot serving Chilkoot Charlie's in the northern end of Spenard. The former Anchorage Love Church, now a meeting space operated by the nonprofit Cook Inlet Housing Authority, is located in a section of Spenard with a heavy concentration of Korean-owned businesses and other establishments.
601 West 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska: Coordinates: Area: 2.1 acres (0.85 ha) Built: 1939: Architect: Gilbert Stanley Underwood (1939-40 and 1940-41); Edwin Butler Crittenden (1958) Architectural style "New Deal Concrete" NRHP reference No. 78000516 [1] AHRS No. ANC-128
The State of Alaska completed a new parking garage in 2008 across the street from the Robert B. Atwood Building. The garage is named the Linny Pacillo Parking Garage after local parking activist Carolyn 'Linny' Pacillo who, with her sister, Susan, became famous during the 1990s for wearing tutus and plugging parking meters downtown in protest to strict parking enforcement.
Construction on Elmendorf Field began on 8 June 1940, as a major and permanent military airfield near Anchorage. The first United States Army Air Corps personnel arrived on 12 August 1940. On 12 November 1940, the War Department formally designated what had been popularly referred to as Elmendorf Field as Fort Richardson.
When the homeless shelter at Sullivan shut down, homeless camps in Anchorage's parks and green areas exploded in size. Anchorage officials have no plans to provide another winter shelter. [ 9 ] On July 9, 2024, the Wolverines confirmed that they would relocate from Ben Boeke Ice Arena to Sullivan Arena for the 2024-25 season.
The northern portion of Muldoon Road evolved into one of the Anchorage area's major retail districts during the 1960s and 1970s, mainly due to the neighborhood's proximity to Elmendorf Air Force Base and Fort Richardson (which merged in 2010 to form Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson. The tract of land on which Tikahtnu Commons sits was ...
Ben Boeke Ice Rink (often shortened to “The Ben,” "Boeke" or "BB1/BB2") is an ice hockey arena in Anchorage, Alaska that opened in 1974. [1] It is named after former Anchorage city clerk Benjamin W. Boeke, who served from 1947 to 1967, under 11 mayors and 8 city managers.