Teeland's Country Store, also known as Herning's Place and Knik Trading Company, is a historic retail establishment located at the corner of East Herning Avenue and North Boundary Street in Wasilla, Alaska. The oldest portion of this wood-frame building is a log structure at the back whose construction dates to 1905. Originally located at Knik, this log structure, then also used as a store, was moved to the newly established town of Wasilla in 1917 by its builder, O. G. Herning. Herning also built the present utilitarian wood-frame structure, which still operates today. The business was purchased by Walter Teeland in 1947, giving it its present name.[2] In 1972 the store was purchased by Jules and Leslie Mead and Neil Gail Bridgewater.
Teeland's Country Store | |
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
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Location | Corner of East Herning Avenue and North Boundary Street, Wasilla, Alaska |
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Coordinates | 61°34′57″N 149°26′24″W / 61.58239°N 149.43991°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1917 |
Built by | O.G. Herning |
NRHP reference No. | 78000533[1] |
AHRS No. | ANC-114 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | November 14, 1978 |
Designated AHRS | August 1, 1976 |
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]
In 1986 the Meads donated the building to the Wasilla-Knik-Willow Creek Historical Society. The building was moved and over the next ten years it was restored to the original look of the Herning's Place.[3]
1998 Jules and Leslie's son Brian Mead and his wife Colene opened Mead's Coffee House in the building which had become known as the Herning-Teeland-Mead Building.[3]
See also
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Teeland's Country Store". National Park Service. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
- ^ a b Brian Mead Interview, 2021