Photos: Alaska's endangered historic properties

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Tourists wait in the rain across the street from the historic 4th Avenue Theatre in downtown Anchorage, AK on Thursday, July 10, 2014. The building is on the Ten Most Endangered Historic Properties for 2014 compiled by The Alaska Association for Historic Preservation.

On July 8, the Alaska Association for Historic Preservation named Alaska's 10 most endangered historic properties. The AAHP has issued similar lists every year since 1991 in hopes of drawing attention to buildings or sites with important connections to Alaska's past that are considered to be at risk for disintegration, demolition or radical renovation.

The main purpose of the list is to make the public aware that such properties exist and alert people to the possibility that they may disappear without someone taking steps to save them.

Read more: Decay prevalent among Alaska's 10 most endangered historic buildings