JBER - Architecture

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fort Richardson Army Base.

This resources is the Alask Archaeological and Historical Survey Site Record for the Fort Richardson Cemetery (ANC-013).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

The Arctic Valley Ski Area includes the original location chosen by the Anchorage Ski Club and the US Army in the early 1940s and the adjacent location the Anchorage Ski Club moved to in 1952 to the north. When civilian skier use of the area exceeded the limits of the existing infrastructure, the Anchorage Ski Club moved up the valley and built its own lodge and rope tows. Remains of ski infrastructure is still present in the original Arctic Valley Ski Area. This document includes a site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shoshana Jones. Kirk E. Ranzetta.

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) has proposed to demolish Building 32448 (formerly 62-160) Munitions Maintenance Operations facility, an individual Quonset hut that was constructed in 1942. As the proposed project is an undertaking on federal lands with federal funds, a cultural resource survey of the project's Area of Potential Effect (APE) and a determination of the building's National Register of Historical Places (NRHP) eligibility were required under Section 106 of the National...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael E. Schmidt.

This document includes a building inventory of 23 buildings from a 2008 building survey at Fort Richardson Army Base. Document includes building forms, determination of eligibility of buildings for the National Register and correspondence between the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer and Fort Richardson Cultural Resources staff.

DOCUMENT Full-Text James Levenson. Bruce Verhaaren.

This document includes a Cold War Building Inventory description of building 7137 (ANC-03134), a chapel complex on Elmendorf Air Force Base.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Frank Broderick. Linda Cook. Brian Coffey. Karen Bretz. Anna Lee Hewko.

In 1995, Elmendorf Air Force Base (AFB) in Anchorage, Alaska, contracted with the National Park Service (NPS) Alaska Support Office to assess the eligibility of its World War II-era facilities for the National Register of Historic Places. Under that contract, a team of NPS historians and partners prepared, researched, and compiled this study of World War II history and resources. They had the assistance of archivists, property managers, and peers who contributed both their time and knowledge to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Frank Broderick. Linda Cook. Karen Bretz. Brian Coffey. Anna Lee Hewko.

The buildings and structures inventoried in Volume II represent the field survey component of this study. The inventory includes the known World War II era buildings and structures built between 1940 and 1945 and five Cold War era buildings as specified in the contract. The project team conducted the survey primarily in 1996 with additional site visits in 1997 and 1998. The team visited and assessed each building and wrote current building descriptions based on this fieldwork. Each entry...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

This report details the proposed action of demolishing building 5303, the bioenvironmental (BE) Storage and Civil Engineering Environmental (CV) Facility, and Building 5312, the Natural Resources Element and SABER offices, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), as part of the effort to consolidate installation operations by demolishing underutilized facilities. The direction guiding this effort share the overreaching goals of reducing the physical footprint of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer Griffin. Bruce Verhaaren.

This report provides an inventory and analysis of structures built or in use at Fort Richardson during the Cold War (1946–1991). It finds that the structures remaining from Cold War-era Fort Richardson, although they played some role in the defense of America, are nonetheless standard base operations structures of the type found on military bases throughout the United States and that they do not have a specific and historically important association with Cold War-era Alaska; thus, they are not...

DOCUMENT Full-Text George Humphreys. MaryNell Nolan-Whatley.

This report is an assessment of Building 9570 and historic district. Building 9570 is a contributing resource to the Flight Line Historic District, which is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under Criterion A for its significant role as part of Elmendorf Air Field during World War II (WWII). The 10 contributing buildings that comprise the Flight Line Historic District are examples of the earliest construction at Elmendorf Air Field and the rapid development of Fort...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc..

Long-term plans for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), Alaska and call for significant re-configuration that will require demolition of some aging buildings. These plans were based on the June 10, 2010 Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies, Disposing of Unneeded Federal Real Estate, which is a federal initiative that intended to develop sustainable installations as detailed in the Environmental Assessment for Demolition of Building 5303 and 53121. Since JBER was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Martin. Robert W. Lane.

The Nike Hercules Missile Battery Site Summit, Anchorage, Alaska, recording project was performed under contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson under the direction of the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. The historical reports and photographs were prepared by Jacobs Engineering Group. Robert Lane served as historian and Katherine Martin served as architect. This document includes the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Adam Russell. Burr Neely. Jason Rogers. Richard O. Stern.

The Alaska Army National Guard (AKARNG), as administered by the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs (DMVA), proposes to demolish nine Quonset hut buildings at Camp Carroll, Alaska. This action represents the type of activity with the potential to cause adverse effects to historic properties, assuming any historic properties are present. As a result and in accordance with federal laws and regulations, the DMV A is responsible for evaluating the eligibility of each building for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Aaron R. Chmiel. Michael A. Pedrotty. Julie L Webster. Gordon L. Cohen.

The U.S. Army Construction Engineering research Laboratories (USACERL) was tasked to study DoD's inventory of aircraft hangars for criteria relevant to Section 106 and 110 requirements. This study is intended to facilitate DoD's further assessment of any hangar's historical or architectural significance, as required by the NHPA. It was conceived to expand a previous DoD-sponsored study on World War II temporary buildings. This current study specifically addresses aircraft hangars mostly...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Heather Miller. Mathew Sneddon.

The Alaska Army National Guard is proposing to address requirements stipulated in Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (NHPA), for buildings and land associated with the Bryant Army Airfield (BAAF). BAAF is part of Joint Base Elmendorf‐Richardson (JBER) northeast of Anchorage, Alaska. The purpose of this project was to provide an evaluation of fifteen buildings at BAAF specified by the DMVA Informal Request for Proposal (IFRP) 091‐1513‐12 for listing on the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James Levenson. Bruce Verhaaren.

This document presents the results of an inventory conducted in May 2007 of Cold War era structures at Elmendorf Air Force Base. Of the 163 structures inventoried, 10 were judged to have specific and important association with historically important Cold War themes. This includes structures in two proposed historic districts, the North Flight line Historic District, and the Elephant Cage Historic District, and two additional structures. These structures are all associated with one of three...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Russell H. Sackett. Joe Norrell. Janet Clemens.

Site Summit is a significant Alaskan Cold War Era property. In recognition of this, the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places listed it on July 11, 1996. A Department of Defense (DoD) Legacy grant through Fort Richardson to the Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation's Office of History and Archaeology paid for research and preparation of the nomination. The Army obtained a second DoD Legacy grant for a feasibility study to help identify potential management actions for the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory J. Schmidt. Judith E. Bittner.

This document includes a letter regarding determination of historic structures at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brent A. Koenen.

This document includes a letter to the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer regarding the demolition of building 36012 the old central heating and power plant facility.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Valerie Gomez.

Northern Land Use Research, Inc. (NLUR) conducted a Section 106 evaluation of one building located at Bryant Army Airfield, Alaska. This report details this evaluation. The facility is an Alaska Army National Guard (AKARNG) facility located in the northeast portion of Fort Richardson, Alaska, northeast of Anchorage. The AKARNG proposes to rehabilitate the Bryant Air Traffic Control Tower. The building has been vacant since 1996. The building has been assigned Alaska Heritage Resources Survey...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

This document is a National Register of Historic Places registration form for site ANC-789 Site Summit.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

This document includes photographs of a tablet that was created to commemorate the opening of the Anchorage-Matanuska Highway.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

This Program Comment, adopted pursuant of 36 CFR § 800.l4( e), demonstrates Department of the Air Force (Air Force) and Department of the Navy (Navy) compliance with their responsibilities under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act with regard to the following actions in the management of the Wherry and Capehart Era family housing: maintenance repair, layaway, mothballing, privatization and transfer out of federal agency ownership, substantial alteration through renovation,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Judith E. Bittner.

This document includes correspondence between the Alaska State Historic Preservation Office and the Director of Public Works Headquarters, U.S. Army Garrison. The correspondence consists of determinations of the proposed demolition on Nike Site Summit (ANC-00789).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brent A. Koenen. Judith E. Bittner.

This document includes State Historic Preservation Office correspondence regarding the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Draft Cold War National Register-Eligible Buildings Report.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Judith E. Bittner. Michael E. Schmidt.

This document includes a letter from the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer regarding potential impacts to cultural resources on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson based on the privatization housing project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Oscar A. Menendez.

This document includes a letter to the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer regarding the proposed installation of a communication facility at Building 652 and potential areas that may be affected by the project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Allan D. Lucht.

This document includes a letter to the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer describing the proposed renovation and addition to the physical fitness building, building 690 and the potential effects to the area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeff Blythe.

This report is an inventory of physical and literary properties and relics associated with the Cold War heritage of US. Army Alaska (USARAK). During the Cold War the Army in Alaska was tasked with a number of missions. During World War II, the Army was responsible for ground defense of Alaska. Throughout most of the Cold War, US. Army Alaska faced this challenge with a force of about 10,000 soldiers. The Army was also a major participant in the joint air defense of Alaska and provided...