410 Cowles St., Fairbanks, Alaska. County/parish: Fairbanks North Star.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 30, 1982. NRIS 82004901.
2 contributing buildings.Also known as:
The Mary Lee Davis House is a historic house at 410 Cowles Street in Fairbanks, Alaska. It is now the Alaska Heritage House, a bed and breakfast inn. It is a 1+1⁄2-story bungalow-style house, set at the northern corner of Cowles and 5th Avenue in a residential area of the city. The exact construction date of the house is uncertain: it was probably complete by 1916, but construction may have begun as early as 1906; it is acknowledged as the city's oldest occupied residence. The unfinished house was purchased by writer Mary Lee Davis and her husband, who finished the building and added a number of its distinctive touches, including the city's first residential coal heating system. After a period of ownership by the Fairbanks Exploration Company, during which it was home to company executives, it went through a succession of owners before being converted to a bed and breakfast.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75325439