Old City Hall (Fairbanks, Alaska) Explained

Old City Hall
Location:410 Cushman Street, Fairbanks, Alaska
Coordinates:64.8417°N -147.7208°W
Architect:Henry Bittman
Builder:Warwick Construction
Architecture:Art Deco
Added:May 30, 2002
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:02000561
Designated Other1:Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
Designated Other1 Name:Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
Designated Other1 Color:
  1. A8EDEF
Designated Other1 Abbr:AHRS
Designated Other1 Number:FAI-00282
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom

The Old City Hall, now the Fairbanks Distilling Company, is a historic civic building at 410 Cushman Street in Fairbanks, Alaska. It is a two-story Art Deco structure, built out of reinforced concrete in 1935 as a fireproof alternative to the city's previous city hall. The building is roughly T-shaped, with quoining patterns incised in the corners and bands of decoration on a parapet level. The building was originally built to house city offices as well as police and fire stations; the entrances to the fire equipment bays on Cushman Street have been filled in with wood framing and siding. The building was enlarged by extensions to the rear twice, once before 1950, and once after the 1967 floods. The city moved its offices to the adjacent Main School in 1994; the building then housed the Fairbanks Community Museum[1] until it was acquired by Fairbanks Distilling Company in July 2014.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=02000561}} National Park Service]. 2015-01-11.
  2. Web site: FAIRBANKS DISTILLING COMPANY - ABOUT US. May 12, 2017.