Ketchikan’s Waterfront – Connecting the City

Ketchikan’s Waterfront - Connecting the City The 1.3 mile waterfront boardwalk has long been a vision for Ketchikan. Considered by many residents to be the most important element of the City’s character and heritage.  It is of utmost importance to protect and enhance the beauty and vitality of the waterfront.  It is our front porch where we welcome more than a million visitors each year to our community.  After the ships leave each day, and after our tourism season ends, it is there for us to ...

Bawden Street Brewery

Bawden Street Brewery Photo: J. Kelly Butwinski Architects Amanda Welsh and Tim Whiteley, longtime enthusiasts of historic preservation, restored a downtown Ketchikan building that is our featured project in this newsletter. Built in 1944 to serve the then adjacent hospital’s needs for boilers, laundry facilities, and nun’s quarters, this reinforced concrete structure was important to Ketchikan’s early medical facility needs. Its tall chimney was built to extend above the roof of the ad ...

“Our Town”

Historic Ketchikan has now produced seven editions of Our Town.Our latest edition is available for free at many locations in Ketchikan including most hotels, the Ketchikan Visitors Center, bookstores and of course at the Historic Ketchikan office. You can also enjoy the entire online version here at our web site by clicking next to the adjacent cover page graphic. “Our Town” magazine is a publication of Historic Ketchikan, with support from the Ketchikan Gateway Borough and the City of Ketchika ...