Sourdough Inn

Sourdough Inn
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
Location Northwest corner of First Avenue and Sled Road, Fort Yukon, Alaska
Coordinates 66°33′49″N 145°16′20″W / 66.5636°N 145.27231°W / 66.5636; -145.27231Coordinates: 66°33′49″N 145°16′20″W / 66.5636°N 145.27231°W / 66.5636; -145.27231
Area less than one acre
Built 1926
NRHP reference # 97001585[1]
AHRS # FYU-006
Added to NRHP December 30, 1997

The Sourdough Inn, at First and Sled Streets in Fort Yukon, Alaska, was built in 1926, by moving a disused Army building from Fort Egbert near Eagle, Alaska. It was then modified and opened as a hotel. It has also been known as the New Sourdough Hotel and has served as a restaurant and as a hotel and as a post office and, briefly in the 1940s, as a school.[2]

It was a three-story gable-roofed building approximately 24-by-48-foot (7.3 m × 14.6 m) in size, plus a two-story later addition to the back.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.[1] As of the NRHP listing, it was the only frame building and the only hotel in the community of Fort Yukon.[2]

The building is not standing anymore at its original location. It was located in an area subjected to heavy floods and it is unclear whether it has been destroyed or relocated elsewhere in Fort Yukon.[lower-alpha 1]

See also

Notes

  1. Compare modern satellite imagery with Old Mission House NRHP form containing a sketch map, this 1950 aerial image and this 1972 aerial image where the building is visible

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 Cora Stewart (1997). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Sourdough Inn / New Sourdough Hotel / AHRS Site No. FYU-006". National Park Service. and accompanying two photos from 1997


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