Anchorage Town Square Brick Search

This is a volunteer project of Code for Anchorage - an extra tool to help you find your brick, alongside the Municipality’s official pickup process. Parks & Recreation employees and volunteers photographed every brick on every pallet at the pickup site, and volunteers used text-reading (OCR) scripts to match the photos to the official brick lists. It is not an official Municipality record: some bricks were not readable in their photos and some photos matched no list row, so a brick that does not appear as found here may still be at the pickup site. If that happens, the best way to look for it is to browse Parks & Recreation’s Flickr photo albums - one album per pallet - and see if the brick is there (the section-to-pallet list below says which albums to check). Unfortunately, some bricks did not survive the move.

Finding your brick

1. Type the name on the brick, words you remember from its inscription, or the brick number from your certificate - spelling does not have to be exact, and names spelled by sound (BRIAN/BRYAN, CATHY/KATHY) still match.
2. Have an original brick number? Type it. The same number can exist twice - bricks moved in the 2009 renovation were given NEW numbers - so every numeric hit says which numbering it is. Some bricks were not moved in 2009 and did not receive new numbers. Certificates show the original number: it is highlighted on each result, and the paper lists at the pickup site are sorted by it.
3. The badges say where to look: the dark Park section badge is where the brick was in Town Square; the gold Pickup pallet badge is the pallet it is stacked on at the pickup site. An at pickup site chip means the brick was photographed there - it made the move and is on that pallet.
4. Only in the official records, no at pickup site chip? The brick is real - there is an official record of it - but the photo matching never identified it at the pickup site. That does not mean it is gone - but it might: some bricks were too worn to read in their photo, some photos could not be matched to a row in the lists, and identical copies of the same inscription are hard to tell apart - your brick may well still be on a pallet. Bricks from one section mostly traveled together - this means that it is worth checking your section’s pallet albums on Flickr before coming in person.
5. Which pallet albums hold my park section? Bricks mostly moved to the pallet(s) sharing their section’s letter - here is where each section’s bricks actually ended up: A → A · B → B · C → C · D → D · E → E · F → F1, F2, F3, H2 · G → G · H → H1, H3, H4, H5, H6 · I → I · J → J · K → K (a few strays landed on other pallets, so the search result’s gold badge is always the surest answer).
6. Other statuses: needs verification the two official lists disagree about this row; no brick made the official list itself marks this sale “no brick / no inscription” - the purchase is recorded but no brick was ever engraved.
7. See the brick: at pickup site bricks have a show me a picture of the brick 📷 button - it opens the pickup-site photo (click the photo to enlarge it), what the computer read from it, and a snapshot of the brick’s row in the scanned original list. If a photo doesn’t load, the record text still stands.
8. “Unofficial” results are bricks confirmed to exist at the pickup site but missing from the official lists - they show what the brick reads and which pallet holds it. They can still be claimed.
9. Not found at all? Try fewer words, or just the surname. If it still doesn’t appear, it may be a brick this project could not read or match - or one of the estimated 1,700 bricks the Municipality says did not survive the move. Before coming to look in person, we recommend searching your section’s pallet albums on Flickr to see if it is there - every brick at the pickup site was photographed, so if it is not in the albums it is not there.

Picking it up

1. Where and when: 2839 Mountain View Dr - generally Mondays & Thursdays 10 AM–2 PM and Saturdays 10 AM–12 PM, through October 10, 2026 (exact dates on the official pickup page). In person only; shipping is not available. It is a hands-on, come-find-your-brick experience - the pallet badge on your search result is where to start looking. Parking is limited; carpooling is encouraged.
2. One form to fill out: every claimant completes the Municipality’s online attestation form - no printing needed.
3. After October 10, 2026 bricks are no longer individually tracked. Unclaimed bricks may be repurposed, donated to historical organizations, or disposed of.

Common questions

• Can someone pick it up for me? Yes - a designated representative can claim it for you. There is no separate paperwork to designate them: they simply complete the same attestation form (online) on your behalf.
• The buyer has passed away? Family claims like this are exactly what the pickup is for. Fill out the online attestation form, find which pallet the brick is on, and come find it on a pickup day - email parkvolunteers@anchorageak.gov if you are unsure how to fill out the form.
• Will ID be checked? No, the attestation form is how claims are recorded.
• Questions this page can’t answer? Check the FAQs on the official Commemorative Brick Return page; if you still have questions, email parkvolunteers@anchorageak.gov.

Data updated 2026-08-13: 13,389 bricks searchable · 10,569 confirmed at the pickup site · 11 unofficial (at the site but missing from the official lists).