Fireweed Studio

The Fireweed Studio is a log cabin in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, located in Somba K'e Park near City Hall.

[2][3] Fireweed Studio is located along the west side of 49th Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets, at the eastern edge of the small Somba K'e Park.

[4] The building itself is a one-storey log cabin slightly rectangular in shape, with a few small trees, mostly white spruce, at the sides and rear.

Both sides have windows in the second and fourth of their five bays covered by locked vertical flushboard shutters similar to the door when the building is closed.

It is sometimes inaccurately stated,[5] including on the building's interpretive plaque, that it was used as a blacksmith's shop; in reality it was used to store dynamite used during shaft sinking to reach the Brock gold vein.

[2] After the tourist centre moved out in 1992, the craft guild took over, opening to the public to sell the works of its member artists on Saturdays and holidays during the summer.

In 2013, the guild started opening the store on Tuesday nights to take advantage of crowds attending the city's nearby farmer's market.

Sales increased briskly enough that the guild decided to extend its summer schedule, staying open on Tuesdays through the last farmer's market of the year, in late September.