Old City Hall (Fairbanks, Alaska)

Old City Hall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
Old City Hall in 2012
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Location	410 Cushman Street, Fairbanks, Alaska
Coordinates	64°50′30″N 147°43′15″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1935 (1935)
Built by	Warwick Construction
Architect	Henry Bittman
Architectural style	Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	02000561[1]
AHRS No.	FAI-00282
Added to NRHP	May 30, 2002

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^[2] until it was acquired by Fairbanks Distilling Company in July 2014.^[3]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.^[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "National Park Service". Retrieved January 11, 2015.
3. "FAIRBANKS DISTILLING COMPANY - ABOUT US". Retrieved May 12, 2017.