R.C. Wood House

Across the street, you find the R.C Wood House. R.C. Wood's banking career in Fairbanks began as cashier for E.T. Barnette's Fairbanks Banking Company. In 1909, Wood took over the management of the First National Bank of Fairbanks. His original one-story house was built on this site in 1906. When President Harding came to town in 1923, he had dinner at this beautiful home overlooking the Chena River. The ravages of time took their toll and the original structure had to be destroyed in 1997. The recent construction of this house duplicates the original design.