Kimball’s Store

Kimball's Store, also known as Kimball Building, was a historic retail establishment at 500 and 504 West 5th Avenue in downtown . The dry goods store operated at the same site from 1915 to 2002, and its two-story wood-frame building is the only commercial building to survive at its original location from the period of Anchorage's founding.
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Photo: Roger Wollstadt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Retail building
  • Description: historic building in Anchorage, Alaska, USA
  • Also known as: “Kimball Building”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Egan Center and Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.

Convention center
The William A. Egan Civic and Convention Center is a 45,000-square-foot convention center located in downtown Anchorage, at 555 West Fifth Avenue.

Arts center
Photo: Mudflattop, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a performance venue in downtown . Opened in 1988, it hosts over 200,000 patrons annually, and consists of three theaters: Resident companies include the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, the Anchorage… is situated 470 feet west of Kimball’s Store.

Historic building
Photo: Reywas92, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Old Anchorage City Hall, also known as , is located at 524 West Fourth Avenue in . It is a two-story cast concrete building, designed by E. is situated 360 feet northwest of Kimball’s Store.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Spenard.

Hamlet
is a neighborhood in the , , United States and was historically a separate city from Anchorage. The road that bears its name, Road, begins at at its southern end, and continues north toward downtown before ending at Westchester Lagoon, where it turns and becomes part of I Street. is situated 2 miles south of Kimball’s Store.

Kimball’s Store

Latitude
61.21734° or 61° 13′ 2″ north
Longitude
-149.89173° or 149° 53′ 30″ west
Established
1915
Levels
2
Open location code
93HG6485+W8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 285248747
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­retail
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­building
Wiki­data ID
Q19462770
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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Town Square Park and ANC Market Social.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: The Kobuk and Polar Bear Gifts.

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