Alaskan Hotel and Bar

The Alaskan Hotel and Bar, also known as the Northlander Hotel and The Alaskan, is a historic establishment and the oldest operating hotel in Juneau, Alaska.

The owners, three miners who struck it rich in the nearby Coast Range, tied the hotel's keys to a helium balloon and released it, signifying that the hotel would never close.

[2] The building was briefly condemned in the 1970s, but was rehabilitated by the new owners.

[3][4] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978[1] and was included as a contributing property to Juneau Downtown Historic District in 1994.

[6] In September 2013, the Travel Channel program Hotel Impossible filmed an episode at the hotel.