The KENI Radio Building is an Art Moderne building in Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States...

, designed by architect Augustine A. Porreca and completed in 1948. The building housed KENI

KENI

KENI is a radio station broadcasting a News/Talk format. Licensed to Anchorage, Alaska, USA, the station serves the Southcentral Alaska area...

 AM, the second radio station in Anchorage.

The reinforced concrete two story building was owned by Cap Lathrop

Austin E. Lathrop

Austin Eugene "Cap" Lathrop was an industrialist and outspoken opponent of Alaska statehood. He has been called "Alaska's first home-grown millionaire."-Early life:...

, who had worked with Porreca on Lathrop's Fourth Avenue Theatre

Fourth Avenue Theatre (Anchorage, Alaska)

The Fourth Avenue Theatre, also known as the Lathrop Building, is a movie theater in Anchorage, Alaska that has been described as Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, and Art Moderne in style...

. Besides radio station facilities, the building also housed three apartments.

The building was purchased by Gregory Carr in the late 1990s, after the radio station moved to the Dimond Center

Dimond Center

Dimond Center is a shopping mall in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. At 728,000 ft² , it is the largest mall in the state of Alaska...

, and converted into a private residence.

External links

• KENI Radio Building, 1777 Forest Park Drive, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK: 2 photos, 1 data page, 1 photo caption page, at Historic American Building Survey