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September 7, 2012
Crews deconstruct historic Kenai warehouse
Most of the building's old growth Douglas fir will be used for other projects.
By JERZY SHEDLOCK
Peninsula Clarion
AP Photo/Peninsula Clarion, Jerzy Shedlock
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Removing the roof requires about half of the labor needed to deconstruct the former warehouse used by Columbia Wards Fisheries.
KENAI, Alaska — On the top floor of the Columbia Wards Fisheries Warehouse at Kenai Landing is an 85-year-old signature. The bold black letters marked on the building's interior metal paneling read, “F.N., from Luzon, City of Manila, 1927.”
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