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Arctic Brotherhood Hall: then and now

Undated vs 2012 · Skagway, AK

Arctic Brotherhood Hall, 2012Arctic Brotherhood Hall, Undated
NowThen
Then, UndatedA color survey photo of the hall's driftwood front. Its Wikimedia Commons listing gives no date.Photo: Historic American Buildings Survey · Public domain · Source · resized
Today, 2012The same driftwood facade, now with a modern street and cars in front.Photo: Miyagawa · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source · resized

The story

The Arctic Brotherhood Hall was built in 1899, and its front is covered with driftwood. It is one of the buildings that make up the Skagway Historic District and White Pass, a National Historic Landmark District.

Almost 100 buildings from the gold rush are still standing in the district. The Skagway part covers a historic core 23 blocks long and three to five blocks wide, with more than 350 buildings. Most are wood-frame buildings with one or two stories and brightly painted false fronts.

Fourteen of those blocks were under National Park Service protection by 1999.

Did you know? Nearly 100 buildings from the gold rush years are still standing in the Skagway historic district.
Historians argue about this. The "Then" photo has no date in its Wikimedia Commons listing, so we show none. It is a survey photo, not a gold rush photo.

Fact or tall tale?

Sources

More: Look for historic photos at the Library of Congress

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