Building sights in Southeast Alaska
- Sort by:
- Popular
-
A
Dyea
In 1898 Skagway's rival city, Dyea, at the foot of the Chilkoot Trail, was the trailhead for the shortest route to Lake Bennett, where stampeders began their float to Dawson City. After the White Pass & Yukon Route was completed in 1900, Dyea quickly died. Today the town is little more than a few old crumbling cabins, the pilings of Dyea Wharf and Slide Cemetery, where 47 men and women were buried after perishing in an avalanche on the Chilkoot Trail in April 1898.
The ghost town is a 9-mile drive along winding Dyea Rd, whose numerous hairpin turns are not for timid RVers. But it's very scenic drive.
reviewed
-
B
Arctic Brotherhood Hall
The most outlandish building of the seven-block historical corridor along Broadway St and possibly the most photographed building in Alaska is this defunct Arctic Brotherhood Hall, now home of the Skagway Convention & Visitors Bureau. The original driftwood, 8833 pieces of it, that covers the façade were attached in 1899 and extensively renovated, piece-by-piece, in 2005.
reviewed
-
C
Sons of Norway Hall
Sons of Norway Hall is the large white building with the colorful rosemaling built in 1912 and the center for Petersburg's Norwegian culture. Come on down and play bingo at 19:00 on Saturday; 'O-32,' ja shore you betcha.
reviewed