Palmer resident Mike Chmielewski and his wife live in a home in Palmer's Historic District that has a construction date that precedes the second World War.
Stephen Haycox and Dagmar Phillips' house incorporates a 1939 downtown Anchorage log cabin into an updated, expanded design.Stephen Nowers, Maia Nolan-Partnow
Craftsman Mark Wedekind has transformed his Airport Heights home from a cookie-cutter one-story to a custom dream home.Stephen Nowers, Maia Nolan-Partnow
Outside, Jill Smythe's Valley of the Moon home looks just like every other condominium on the block. Inside, however, it's a study in reinvention.Maia Nolan-Partnow, Stephen Nowers
Anchorage attorney Peter Partnow's home was built to showcase work by Alaskan artists like Byron Birdsall and Nedra Kilcher, but each winter the house is taken over by an army of carrot-nosed, coal-buttoned invaders.Stephen Nowers, Maia Nolan-Partnow
Former Cordova mayor Margy Johnson shares her warm and inviting home downtown Anchorage home with mermaids and plenty of art and Alaskana.Bryan Dunagan
OPINION: Despite one researcher's view, the "sport trophy" fish of Alaska's world-famous Kenai River, along with the people who fish them, did more than anyone or anything to preserve and protect the river habitat.Craig Medred
