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Item Title
Ladd Field, Power Plant, Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK
LocationFort Wainwright,
Fairbanks, AK
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS AK-36-L
Building/structure dates:
1940 initial construction
National Register Number: 85002730
Significance: The cold weather experimental Air Base (Ladd Field) at Fairbanks was the first Army major construction of World War II in Alaska. Permanent buildings were built based upon original designs by Austin Company rather than standardized Army structures. The Power Plant was of critical importance given the subarctic weather.
Subjects
Power Plants
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. VIEW OF SOUTH AND EAST EXTERIORS
2. VIEW OF SOUTH EXTERIOR AND ASH HOPPER FROM THE WEST
3. DOOR, SOUTH EXTERIOR
4. COAL LOADING ENTRANCE, NORTHWEST CORNER
5. COAL LOADING ENTRANCE AND WEST EXTERIOR
6. NORTH EXTERIOR
7. COOLING POND
8. DETAIL OF LOUVER BOARD AT COOLING POND
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