Rainey-Skarland Cabin

Rainey's Cabin
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
Location	University of Alaska Fairbanks campus, College, Alaska
Coordinates	64°51′32″N 147°49′54″W
Area	0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built	1936 (1936)
Built by	T.S. Batchelder; Froelich Rainey
Architectural style	log cabin
NRHP reference No.	75002158
AHRS No.	FAI-084
Added to NRHP	November 20, 1975

Rainey's Cabin, also known as Skarland's Cabin and Ivar's Cabin, is a historic log cabin on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in College, Alaska. It is a single-story three-room log structure, with a massive central stone fireplace. The cabin was built in 1939 for Froelich Rainey, the first chairman of the university's anthropology department. The cabin for many years played a significant role as a social center of the university, and was where Rainey hosted a number of pioneering archaeologists and anthropologists, including J. Louis Giddings and Frederica de Laguna. The cabin was later occupied by Ivar Skarland, who succeeded to Rainey's chair and continued his social practices. The university uses the cabin as housing for anthropology and archaeology professors and students.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska