Claypool/Berry Home

This home was built for Judge Claypool in 1911. One of the earliest frame homes in Fairbanks, it was built on the very edge of town. In 1925 the new owner, Otis Berry, raised the home and installed a huge center crossbeam from a beached sternwheeler under it for support. During this time the stretch of the Chena River across 1st Ave. was a shipyard.