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The restaurant is located in the shell of a 1933 pumping station established by the Fairbanks Exploration Company, Alaska's largest gold mining operator at the time. The pump house was used to provide water to dredges operating on Cripple Creek in the Ester area. The building was abandoned by the company in 1958, and was enlarged and converted ...
The Falcon Joslin House is a historic house at 413 Cowles Street in Fairbanks, Alaska.Built in 1904, this American Foursquare two-story frame house is the oldest house in Fairbanks set at its original location, and was one of the first frame houses built in what was then a mining camp.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
Rika's Landing Roadhouse, also known as Rika's Landing Site or the McCarty Roadhouse, is a roadhouse located at a historically important crossing of the Tanana River, in the Southeast Fairbanks Area, Alaska, United States. It is off mile 274.5 of the Richardson Highway in Big Delta.
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 rail yards of the Tanana Valley Railroad were converted for use by the Alaska Railroad, and Fairbanks became the northern end of the line and its second-largest depot. [26] From 1923 to 2004, the Alaska Railroad's Fairbanks terminal was in downtown Fairbanks, just north of the Chena River.
The Fairbanks Exploration Company Manager's House, also known as The White House and the Sisters' Convent, is a historic house at 757 Illinois Street in Fairbanks, Alaska. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, clapboard siding, and a post-and-beam foundation. An ell extends from the center of the rear.
The rapid economic growth in Fairbanks tapered off by the late 1950s, and by the end of 1957 there were about 1,000 vacancies in the Fairbanks area. [2] During the Fairbanks flood of 1967, downtown Fairbanks was flooded and the Polaris Building was evacuated. Water was five feet deep in Second Avenue. [4]