Historic Anchorage City Hall

Historic City Hall stands on West Fourth Avenue as a two-story building of cast concrete with a rusticated ground floor and round-arch openings. Completed in nineteen thirty-six during the Great Depression, it marked a transition for Anchorage from wood-frame construction to more permanent, reinforced concrete for public buildings. The structure was built with federal support from the Public Works Administration and replaced smaller municipal wood-frame buildings that had previously occupied the site.