Juneau Cold Storage

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This two-story, concrete and steel building with modern Butler building addition measured 107' x 110'. The floor and exterior walls of main building were insulated with 6\" sheets of cork covered with plaster and cement. The interior walls had 4\" cedar shavings and 6\" of granulated cork for insulation. The building was completely destroyed by fire May 24, 1987.

The Juneau Cold Storage Company was an outgrowth of a fish business begun in 1903 by Oliver Drange. The Business's original site was on the Pacific Coast Steamship Company dock. In 1913 the firm opened a new plant in a second location and in early 1927 financed the construction of the facility and continued its expansion. An important part of the Juneau economy, the May 31, 1932 newspaper reported a total of 39,532 pounds of fish landed at the Juneau Cold Storage over the weekend. Troll salmon brought four cents a pound for reds, one cent for whites, while gillnet fish brought three and one cents. Landings also included 6,500 pounds of halibut which brought six and three-eights and three cents.

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Inventory of Historic Sites and Structures, City and Borough of Juneau, March 1986; CBJ Community Development files; http/www.juneau.org/parkrec/museum/forms/digitalbob/index.php