Wasilla Community Hall - Wasilla, Alaska
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BruceS
N 61° 34.961 W 149° 26.475
6V E 370409 N 6830120
Former community center now visitors center and museum in Wasilla, Alaska.
Waymark Code: WMAPT8
Location: Alaska, United States
Date Posted: 02/08/2011
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"The present Wasilla Historical Museum built in 1931 as the first (and only) Wasilla Community Hall is a log building rectangular in shape. The main portion of the original building is thirty- feet wide and fifty feet long. It was built, as it remains, with a twelve by thirty foot porch insitu at the front entrance. This one-story log structure, with a sturdy concrete basement foundation, is located on Main Street, in the heart of the City of Wasilla. The building had a gable roof, which is now covered with -modern asphalt roofing. Originally this was of tar-paper.
In 1967 the building's interior was fully refurbished. The exterior, however, has never been altered from its original appearance. The interior after 1967 had varnished fiberboard flooring, sheetrock ceiling covering the old rafters and paneled walls. The museum display areas ... are located along each wall and in the center of the one, large, original room interior.
The Community Hall is the oldest remaining log structure in Wasilla,, Its genesis stems from the first homestead established at Lake Wasilla by Chris Stern, pre-dating the founding of Wasilla. Threatened with razing in the 1960's, the Community Hall building was saved through, efforts of the Alaska Territorial Centennial Commission. Restored in 1967, it became the home of the Knik-Willow-Wasilla Historical Society, ...has been a public historical museum. Much of the social history s of the lower Matsnuska Valley; is associated with landmark structure." - National Register Nomination form