Did you or your family buy an engraved brick at
Anchorage’s Town Square Park in 1992–93? The park is
being rebuilt, and the Municipality is returning the bricks to their
owners - in person, through October 10, 2026. Search
below to see if your brick is waiting at the pickup site.
(Anchorage
Daily News story ·
official
pickup page)
✅ Found your brick? Note its
original # and gold pallet badge, then
claim it in person at 2839 Mountain View Dr (Mon & Thu
10 AM–2 PM, Sat 10 AM–12 PM) by
October 10, 2026 - details under “About this
search” below.
About this search - a Code for Anchorage volunteer
project
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.
Brick Search Tool - Quick Guide
If your result shows no photo:
The brick is still in the official
records, but its photo was not matched.
It may still be on a pallet. Bricks can be too worn to read
or hard to match.
Check your section’s
Flickr
pallet albums. If it’s not in the albums, it is not
at the pickup site.
Which albums hold each section’s bricks: 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).
“Unofficial” result:
The brick was found at the pickup site but is missing from
the official lists.
It can still be claimed.
needs verification:
Two official lists disagree about this brick.
no brick made the official
list:
The purchase is recorded, but no brick was ever
engraved.
To search: type the name, words you remember, or the
original brick number. Exact spelling is not required.
If you have the original number, enter it. Some bricks
have two numbers due to the 2009 move. The original number is
highlighted on each result.
Badges in the results:
Dark Park section badge =
where the brick was in Town Square.
Gold Pickup pallet badge =
which pallet it is on now.
at pickup site chip = the
brick was photographed and is on that pallet.
To see a brick photo: click
show me a picture of the brick 📷. If the photo
does not load, the text record is still correct.
If not found: try fewer words or just the last name. If
still missing, check your section’s
Flickr
albums before visiting.
Picking it up
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.
One form to fill out: every claimant completes the
Municipality’s
online
attestation form - no printing needed.
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.
Data updated 2026-08-19: 13,389 bricks searchable · 10,569 confirmed at the pickup site · 11 unofficial (at the site but missing from the official lists).