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Location of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in Alaska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. The ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Alaska on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The property fell into foreclosure in 2018 due to unpaid taxes, and was purchased by the city of Fairbanks with intentions to demolish it. [12] The city of Fairbanks paid the current deed holder $15,000 for the option to buy the deed for an extra $115,000 within two years. [13] Boarded-up Polaris Building in 2021, from a nearby business patio
The Fairbanks North Star Borough is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 95,665, down from 97,581 in 2010. [2] The borough seat is Fairbanks. [3] The borough's land area is slightly smaller than that of the state of New Jersey.
The George C. Thomas Memorial Library, also known as the North Star Borough Library is a historic former library building at 901 1st Avenue in Fairbanks, Alaska. Built in 1909 with funding from philanthropist George C. Thomas, this log building served Fairbanks as its public library until 1977, when the Noel Wien Public Library was opened
The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District is a public school district based in Fairbanks, Alaska . With a student enrollment of slightly over 14,000, it is the state's second largest public school district.
In 1968, Hez Ray, a teacher and coach at Lathrop High School, organized a crew of high school students and volunteers and undertook a project to move the derelict hangar to Fairbanks and repurpose it as an ice skating arena. Coach Ray's initial group of boys were “First Boots on the Ground” in the beginning of the enormous project.
The Fort Knox Gold Mine is an open pit gold mine, 9 mi (14 km) east of Fox in the Fairbanks mining district of Alaska. It is owned and operated by Toronto -based Kinross Gold . Originally staked in 1913, after very minor mining at the location the property sat idle until being restaked in 1980.