i PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT PLAN This Place Matters! The images behind the logo: Alyeska Roundhouse-top right, Old Saint Nicholas Church-top left, Wendler Building-center, 4th Avenue Theatre-center right, and Ship Creek-bottom left-Home to First Salmon Ceremony PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT PLAN Anchorage’s Historic Preservation Plan A Strategy for Historic Preservation, Neighborhood Revitalization, and Economic Development Prepared by the Planning Department – Long-Range Planning Division and the Anchorage Historic Preservation Commission Adopted by the Anchorage Assembly on ………2018 PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT PLAN Intentionally Left Blank PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT PLAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mayor Ethan Berkowitz Planning and Zoning Commission Historic Preservation Commission Planning Department Tyler Robinson, Chair Debra Corbett, Chair Carol Wong, Planning Manager Anchorage Assembly Jon Spring, Vice Chair Kimberly Varner Wetzel, Vice Chair Kristine Bunnell, Project Manager, CLG Dick Traini, Chair Seth Andersen Bobbie Bianchi, Government Hill Representative Forrest Dunbar, Vice Chair Danielle Bailey Darrell Lewis, National Park Service Connor Scher, Planning Intern Christopher Constant Mitzi Barker Bryce Klug, RIM Architects Jody Seitz, Associate Planner Eric Croft Jared Gardner Kevin Keeler, At-Large Susan Perry, Principal Office Associate Amy Demboski Brian Looney, P.E. Richard Martin, Knik Tribal Council Fred Dyson Project Team Andre Spinelli Brandy Pennington, Realtor Suzanne La France Huddle, AK Gregory Strike Monty Rogers, Cultural Alaska, At-Large Pete Petersen Corvus Culture Summer Louthan, Ex-Officio-Alaska State Historic Felix Rivera Al Dobbins Project Management & Engineering Preservation Office Tim Steele Jennifer Novy, GISP Northern Land Use Research, Alaska, LLC John Weddleton Terry Lamberson, GISP PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT PLAN PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT PLAN TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 3Historic Preservation in Anchorage Thank you………………………………………………………………….....i Municipality of Anchorage’s Historic Preservation Program…………………32 Purpose Overview……………………………………………………………ii Other MOA Plans With Preservation Goals, Policies, and Actions……….......35 MOA-Owned Landmarks……………………………………………...……iii Local Preservation Organizations………………………………………….……38 Vicinity Map…………………………………………………………………iii Involving the Alaska Native Peoples in Historic Preservation………………...40 Public Engagement Overview…………………………………………….....iv Historic Preservation Program Accomplishments………………………….v 4Occupation and Settlement Organization and Using the Plan………………………………………..….vi Occupation and Settlement Overview………………………………………….42 Draft Priority Recommendations…………………………………………...vi 1Introduction 5 Properties of National Significance Nationally-Significant Properties in Anchorage………………………………52 Purpose……………………………………………………………………….1 National Register Listed and Eligible Properties……………………………….58 AMC 4.6.030 Economic and Social Benefits of Historic Preservation……2 MOAHPP and the MOA Historic Preservation Program………………….6 6Benefits of Historic Preservation MOAHPP Development Methodology…………………………………….9 Social Benefits Of Historic Preservation………………………………………..62 Planning Areas………………………………………………………………10 Economic Benefits Of Historic Preservation…………………………………...63 Public Engagement and Outreach………………………………………….12 Historic Preservation as an Economic Development Tool……………………….64 Appendix, Case Studies and Readings………………………………………15 What the MOAHPP Will and Will Not Do………………………………..15 7Anchorage Local Landmark and Landmark District Register Acronyms, Abbreviations, Glossary………………………………………..17 Intent of Local Landmarks Register…………………………………………….66 2Federal and State Historic Preservation Laws Types of Local Landmarks………………………………………………………66 Categories for Evaluating Local Landmark…………………………………….68 What is Historic Preservation………………………………………………26 Local Landmark Nomination Process………………………………………….69 Federal Historic Preservation Laws…………………………………………26 Local Landmark Frequently Asked Questions…………………………………70 Alaska State Historic Preservation Program……………………………….29 8Themes, Visions, Goals and Policies Themes, Visions, Goals, and Policies……………………………………………72 PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT PLAN 9Implementation Plan Introduction…………………………………………………………...88 Consulting Parties…………………………………………..…………88 Program of Projects – Implementation Matrix……………………....89 10Case Studies and Readings………………………………………..104 11Bibliography…………………………………………………………...122 12Appendix………………………………………………………………126 MOAHPP Online Survey Summary The Greenest Building Fact Sheet Anchorage Original Neighborhoods Interpretive Plan Overview AMC 4.60.030 - Anchorage Historic Preservation Commission AMC 6.100 - Historic Preservation Project Fund Anchorage 2020 – Relevant Policies National Register Historic District Approval Process PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT PLAN Executive Summary Thank You Thank you! To the supporters of this planning effort. The planning team sought to involve We know the success and spoils of mineral wealth, a resolve to rebuild and remain, and the the community throughout the planning process, and our community stepped up and primal importance of salmon. We share the desire to live between mountains and sea, at helped in numerous ways; from showing up at workshops, volunteering to knock on doors the edge of the frontier thriving on all this place has to offer. Events in Anchorage to interview your neighbors, to actually writing some of your community’s history! We influenced the state, nation, and world. These include Alaska Statehood, the 1964 Good could not have done this without the overwhelming community support we received. Friday Earthquake, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. Plans Are Living Documents Generations before us preserved and documented their memories through excellent The Municipal-Wide Historic Preservation Plan (MOAHPP) is intended to be a publications, oral histories, plays, and songs. Dena’ina place names, settlement patterns, comprehensive “living document” that establishes historic and cultural preservation goals, notable people, community-led efforts for change and preservation, roadway and trail policies, and action items. Adopted comprehensive, neighborhood and district plan historic development, and iconic architecture tell a story. Many important historic and cultural and cultural preservation goals, policies, and action items are included in Section 4. This features from important events need to be saved, celebrated, fixed, and used. was intentional to provide one comprehensive document to address preserving, educating, and celebrating our unique cultural and historic resources. The MOAHPP will be updated Where else can you find an “industrial” town surrounded by such breathtaking natural from time-to-time to reflect new information on historic and cultural resources, state-of- surroundings providing one of the most desirable places to live, work, learn, worship, travel, the-art preservation standards and tools, to provide new case studies and best practices. and recreate on earth. Occupation and Settlement Story This Place Matters—to us! Our occupation and settlement story winds through centuries of Dena’ina battle grounds, hunting and fishing places, and encampments. This prehistory is following by European and American fur traders, and gold seekers who braved the frozen places and remote inhospitable ground. Then the railroad came to Dgheyay Kaq ’ (Ship Creek), and the Dena’ina were moved off their traditional places. Everything changed. The MOAHPP acknowledges the changes, while encouraging preservation of buildings, sites, objects and stories to recognize the ambitions of the people. Our collective history from the first Dena’ina peoples, the fur and gold seekers, the hardy railroad and highway builders, the toiling homesteaders, the soldiers and aviators, the women, the capitalists, and the immigrants is something to know and celebrate. Outside Magazine refers to Anchorage as a town with an “industrial feel” and the “Best Place for Making the Most of Summer” in their “Top 25 Best Places to Live” in this country. Anchorage Museum and UAF Archive Most of us would probably agree with that description. i PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT PLAN Purpose Overview Functional Plans The purpose of this plan is to implement a historic preservation program directed by Historic preservation plans are “Functional Plans” Assembly Ordinance (A.O.) 2006-175 adopted by the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA) in adopted to study and recommend future needs 2006. The MOAHPP is intended to “encourage and further the interests of historic for public facilities and resources. Functional plan preservation by identifying, protecting, and interpreting the municipality’s significant examples include the: Area Wide Trails Plan; historic and cultural resources for the economic and social benefit of the community” (A.O. Metropolitan Transportation Plan; and the 2007-175 section 1-A.). Briefly, the economic and social benefits of historic preservation are Anchorage Park, Natural Resource, and described as: Recreation Facility Plan. The MOAHPP makes recommendations on municipal-owned historic Social benefits are both tangible and intangible. These benefits are derived buildings, and public facilities such as trails and from community involvement and understanding, identifying ways for the MOAHPP roadways consistent with the goals and policies to support community involvement and understanding, identification of historic of Anchorage 2020. and cultural resources, sustaining our Quality of Life