Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 02001460 Added to NRHP 5 December 2002 | Built 1910 (1910) Opened 1910 | |
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Location Third St., Chitina, Alaska | ||
Copper river and northwestern railway bunkhouse and messhouse top 5 facts
The Copper River and Northwestern Railway Bunkhouse and Messhouse are historic railroad worker facilities on Third Street in Chitina, Alaska. The messhouse is a single-story wood frame structure with a hip roof, measuring 26 by 30 feet (7.9 m × 9.1 m). It has a porch on the east side, and a timber-braced entrance on the west side leading to a root cellar under the building. The bunkhouse is also a single-story structure, measuring 43 by 25 feet (13.1 m × 7.6 m). It has an enclosed porch on its southern facade, and is divide internally into to large chambers. These facilities were built in 1910 by the Copper River and Northwestern Railway to house its work crews, a service they performed until the railroad shut down in 1938. They are the only surviving elements of what was once a larger CR&NW presence in the community.
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The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.