| Cape Nome Roadhouse | |
| Location: | Mile 14 of Nome-Council Highway |
| Nearest City: | Nome, Alaska |
| Coordinates: | 64.4426°N -164.9772°W |
| Architecture: | New England salt box |
| Added: | December 12, 1976 |
| Area: | less than one acre |
| Refnum: | 76000361 |
| Designated Other1: | Alaska Heritage Resources Survey |
| Designated Other1 Name: | Alaska Heritage Resources Survey |
| Designated Other1 Date: | March 1972 |
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| Designated Other1 Abbr: | AHRS |
| Designated Other1 Number: | SOL-069 |
| Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
The Cape Nome Roadhouse is the last remaining historical roadhouse on the Iditarod Trail. Built in 1900 to accommodate travelers to the Nome area during the Nome Gold Rush, it was soon expanded. It has a profile resembling that of a typical New England saltbox house, although its main entrance is on what would normally be considered the side of such a building. Its oldest portion is a log structure, which was expanded with lumber wood framing, and the whole building is now covered with clapboard siding. It is the only structure surviving from the route of a 650miles delivery of diphtheria serum in 1925 achieved by a relay of dogsled teams. The roadhouse declined with the advent of aviation to the area, and was used as an orphanage, a military communications facility during World War II, and saw used in the later 20th century as a retail establishment.[1]
The roadhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.