Oscar Anderson House Museum

03/03/2026

Oscar Anderson House is open mid-June to mid-September and first two weekends in December.

04/28/2025

April 2025 -- New roof and exterior painting updated.

12/15/2024

Oscar Anderson House presentation online
https://alaskapreservation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Oscar-Anderson-House-Presentation-PDF.pdf

07/08/2024

Oscar Anderson House will not be open this summer due to our need for restoration and repairs. We have a couple of virtual tours available for you. Please see the links in comments. We apologize for the inconvenience.

02/03/2023

We are pleased to share this video produced by Patricia Smart, Author Adventures, who visited us last September. We hope that you enjoy the video.

You can learn more about her as well as other videos that she has produced. https://authoradventures.org/

https://youtu.be/2WyOsdcLlYs

We filmed this video on location in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2022, with thanks to the Oscar Anderson House Museum. AuthorAdventures.org is a not-for-profit educ...

12/09/2022

Come out and learn more about Alaska's history. In the Northern Air Cargo Sholton Pioneer Hall we have a wonderful exhibit on Alaska and the Great War.

Why is this hall named the NAC Sholton Hangar? Because NAC and the Sholton family have been big supporters to the Alaska Aviation Museum.

12/09/2022

$5,000 Challenge Grant for Oscar Anderson House Museum

Donna Burgess and Ernest Burgess, who are the granddaughter and grandson of Oscar Anderson, have offered a challenge grant of $5,000 to help cover the operations expenses for the Oscar Anderson House Museum. The AAHP board of directors have accepted that challenge.

We appreciate the offer of the challenge grant. During her lifetime, Ruth Anderson Burgess, Oscar's daughter, made significant donations to the physical maintenance of the house and established an endowment to help with upkeep and repairs that is housed with the Alaska Community Foundation. Donna, and her brother Ernest, share their mother's love for this house and are deeply interested that this historic treasure continues to be open to the public as a museum so that current and future generations can get a rare, firsthand glimpse into the life of a pioneering Anchorage family.

The board has been looking at ways to counter that expense since earlier this year so that we can continue to be the Stewards of the house and still be able to focus on our mission of historic preservation. This challenge grant will assist in covering most of the operational expenses.

The challenge grant is meant to help subsidize the annual operating costs while we look for other ways to fund the operations. We have a long list but it will take time to implement them. This challenge grant helps immensely.

We appreciate the offer of the challenge grant. The house means a lot to Donna and her family and they have been concerned that the Oscar Anderson House continues to be an Anchorage treasure. There are a lot of repairs that need to be done at the house. That will be an entirely different project to raise funds for as the Municipality of Anchorage does not have the funding to support the repairs or the replacement of the cedar shingle roof. We are currently putting together a proposal to submit for grants, appropriations and donations.

If you would like to help match this generous officer, please send a check or money order to Alaska Association for Historic Preservation (AAHP), PO Box 102205, Anchorage, AK 99510. Be sure to note in the memo field that it is for the challenge grant.

You can also donate via PayPal at https://tinyurl.com/cs6985kb Click on the donate to Oscar Anderson House button. Enter the amount you wish to donate.

If you would like to make a donation in memory of someone, please let us know. [email protected]

All donations will be acknowledged and will be maintained by Alaska Association for Historic Preservation in a separate fund.

AAHP is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. Tax ID: 92-0085097. Donations to AAHP and its programs are tax deductible to the extent of the law.

Thank you for your support!

11/30/2022

November 30, 2018 is a day we won't soon forget. 7.0 earthquake shook the Oscar Anderson House. Fortunately, not a lot of damage. Just things falling to the floor.

09/20/2022

Workshop: Alaska Court Records Research

Join Niesje Steinkruger, retired Superior Court Judge, and Karen Gray, State Archivist
Alaska State Archives, for a court records research workshop on October 7th at 9:30am. For more information, visit the link below:

https://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/workshop-alaska-court-records-research/

09/19/2022

The Lost Alaskans Lecture by Niesje Steinkruger and Eric Cordingly will take place on October 6th at noon.

It’s part of the Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Fall Lecture Series to be held at Shuka’ Hit in the Walter Soboleff building in Juneau, Alaska and livestreamed on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/SealaskaHeritageInstitute

https://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/morningside-hospital-lecture/