Northward Building construction @alaskafilmarchives
Northward Building construction  @alaskafilmarchives
Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This clip shows the different stages of the construction of the Northward Building in downtown Fairbanks, Alaska, circa 1950. It was constructed, and still serves as, an apartment building (Color/Silent/16mm film).

This clip is from AAF-5778 of the Borkgren Collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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Northward Building construction

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