Tagged: Anchorage History

Oscar Anderson House, Anchorage’s first permanent residence, is still standing today

Oscar Anderson House, Anchorage’s first permanent residence, is still standing today

Oscar Frank Anderson was a Swedish immigrant living in Seattle with his wife and three children in 1915. When he heard about the government railroad that would likely be constructed in Alaska from Cook...

Anchorage’s Old City Hall served the city for over 40 years

When the Alaska Engineering Commission (AEC), the federal agency responsible for building the Alaska Railroad, laid out the townsite of Anchorage in the spring 1916, it set aside a “municipal reserve” for city government...