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This article lists the oldest extant buildings in Alaska, including extant buildings and structures constructed prior to and during the United States rule over Alaska. Only buildings built prior to 1880 are suitable for inclusion on this list, or the building must be the oldest of its type.
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.
Building Image Location State First built Use Notes Dutch House: New Castle: DE 1700 Residential Despite being called the Dutch House, the building style is more English. Benoni Fox House Concord: MA 1700 Residential This is one of the oldest buildings of the Fox family in the United States. Stanton–Davis Homestead Museum: Stonington: CT 1700 ...
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 of logs in 1903–05, this was one of a number of roadhouses built along the Valdez Trail. It was destroyed by fire in 1992, leading to withdrawal of its landmark status. By the time of its destruction, it was one of the oldest continuously operating roadhouses in Alaska. [12]
December 31, 1997 (100 Lincoln Street: Sitka: 21: Sitka Woman's Club Building: October 15, 2024 (300 Harbor Drive: Sitka: 22: US Coast and Geodetic Survey Seismological and Geomagnetic House
The interior walls are built from dimensionally smaller logs, and the floors were made of half-logs secured into joists and sills by tenons. The structure is estimated to have been built in the 1840s, at a time when many buildings were built by Finnish laborers brought in by Russian administrators, and was first used as for residential purposes ...
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