Oscar Anderson House Museum

The Oscar Anderson House Museum is a small, one-and-a-half-story bungalow with horizontal wood siding that stands inside Elderberry Park. Constructed in nineteen fifteen, this home holds the distinction of being the first wood-frame residence built in Anchorage after the original townsite lots were auctioned. While most early settlers lived in temporary tents at the muddy Ship Creek settlement, Oscar Anderson, a Swedish immigrant and local butcher, secured the materials to build a permanent structure for his family.