The Noyes house in the Fall of 2012 For years the historic Noyes House at 407 Illinois Street was obscured by fencing and trees. One of the “benefits” of the recent Illinois Street widening...
Mary Lee Davis House in Fall 2000, before restorations began In today’s world of mega-houses, the wood-frame bungalow at 410 Cowles Street known as the Mary Lee Davis House doesn’t stand out, but in...
We have had a very nice lingering Fall this year. It is October 17th and normally everything would be frozen already, but we are still having + 50 degree days. We took a drive...
The Bunnell House as it looked in about 2000 The Alaska College of Agriculture and School of Mines (now the University of Alaska Fairbanks) got off to a slow and shaky start. Established in...
We drove the Denali Highway Thursday. Friday and Saturday–stayed at Brushkana campground on Friday night. The campground, maintained by the Bureau of Land Management, is a lovely little facility on the banks of Brushkana...
Quigley cabin as it looked in the 1990s Fannie Quigley was a larger-than-life Alaskan whose story has probably been embellished over the years. A 1990 Alaska Magazine article related that Fannie “was quick on...
Old Federal Building in Fairbanks in about 2000 The book “Ghosts of the Gold Rush” recounts that many long-time Fairbanks residents believed the reason Fairbanks prospered and Chena City (at the confluence of the...
Gilmore McCarty mill as it looked in the 1990s Fairbanks Creek, 20 miles northeast of town, was one of the most productive gold producing areas around Fairbanks. Genevieve Parker Metcalfe, who was the...
Old Chicken schoolhouse as it looked in the 1990s The first time we visited Chicken in the 1990s there was little you could see from the Taylor highway. Downtown Chicken (adjacent to the highway)...
I went out to the Pioneer Home this afternoon to give a presentation about historic sites along the road system in Eastern Interior Alaska. This was a return engagement. I was there last October...
