McKinley_Tower_Apartments
McKinley Tower Apartments
United States historic place
The McKinley Tower Apartments, previously known as the East 4th & Denali Apartments, the Mt. McKinley Building, the McKay (or MacKay) Building and the McKinley Building, is a historic apartment building at 337 East Fourth Avenue in the eastern downtown of Anchorage, Alaska. Originally constructed by Swalling Construction owners, John H. Clawson and Albert Swalling, as a 14-story HUD 604 apartment building named the Mt. McKinley Bldg,[2] it is the first, and oldest high-rise in Anchorage. McKinley Tower was designed in 1950 by Earl W. Morrison for MacDonald Architects of Seattle[3] who also designed the nearly identical Inlet Towers at 1020 W. 12th Avenue.[4] The building shares key design characteristics with several other buildings designed by Morrison including: Skye at Belltown in Seattle, WA.[5] The Mendenhall Tower in Juneau, Mary Frances Towers in Ketchikan, and the Cathedral Arms building in Sitka.