The McKinley Tower Apartments wear a jagged, distinctively zig-zagged facade of precast concrete panels that rises fourteen stories above the corner of Fourth Avenue and Denali Street. Built in nineteen fifty-two, it arrived as the tallest building in Alaska, a status it held for decades. Its architect, Maynard Niver, designed the structure to project modern confidence during a postwar boom. When the nineteen sixty-four earthquake struck, the tower stayed upright while surrounding buildings crumbled, earning a reputation for durability that persists in local lore.
McKinley Tower Apartments
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