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Cape Nome Roadhouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey

Cape Nome Roadhouse, from the Historic American Buildings Survey.

Location	Mile 14 of Nome-Council Highway
Nearest city	Nome, Alaska
Coordinates	64°26′33″N 164°58′38″W / 64.44261°N 164.97721°W / 64.44261; -164.97721
Area	less than one acre
Built	1901 (1901)
Architectural style	New England salt box
NRHP reference No.	76000361
AHRS No.	SOL-069
Added to NRHP	December 12, 1976
Designated AHRS	March 1972

The Cape Nome Roadhouse is the last remaining historical roadhouse on the Iditarod Trail. Built in 1900 to accommodate travelers to the Nome area during the Nome Gold Rush, it was soon expanded. It has a profile resembling that of a typical New England saltbox house, although its main entrance is on what would normally be considered the side of such a building. Its oldest portion is a log structure, which was expanded with lumber wood framing, and the whole building is now covered with clapboard siding. It is the only structure surviving from the route of a 650-mile (1,050 km) delivery of diphtheria serum in 1925 achieved by a relay of dogsled teams. The roadhouse declined with the advent of aviation to the area, and was used as an orphanage, a military communications facility during World War II, and saw used in the later 20th century as a retail establishment.

The roadhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
"NRHP nomination for Cape Nome Roadhouse". National Park Service. Retrieved February 11, 2015.

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