Tagged: Wendler building

Anchorage’s Wendler Building was one of first commercial buildings completed in the new city

Larson & Wendler Grocery as it looked in 1916.   Anton (A.J.) Wendler owned a brewery at Valdez in 1915. However, with the temperance movement gaining traction in Alaska, A.J. decided to seek new...

Historic buildings in downtown Anchorage, Alaska – Spring 2014

Kimball Building, 504 W. 5th Avenue – 1915 I was in Anchorage this past weekend talking pictures of old buildings. While the downtown area is now given over mostly to modern multi-story office, commercial...