Cape Nome Roadhouse

	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
Area	less than one acre
Built	1901
Architectural style	New England salt box
NRHP reference No.	76000361
AHRS No.	SOL-069
Significant dates
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.^[2]