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600 Block of First Street

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Because of several fires, including a particularly devastating one in 1963, few early commercial buildings remain in Cordova. The utilitarian simplicity, expedient wooden construction, and lack of stylistic references, seen in the following buildings, characterize functional, frontier architecture.

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Alison K. Hoagland
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Alison K. Hoagland, "600 Block of First Street", [Cordova, Alaska], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AK-01-SC102.

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Buildings of Alaska, Alison K. Hoagland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 143-143.

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