Goldstein Building

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This five-story reinforced concrete building measures 100' x 100'. It has a flat roof and a full concrete basement. The Seward and Second Street elevations have five pronounced bays, each with storefront windows on the first floor, a window band on the second floor, and three 1/1 double hung windows on the third and fifth floors. There are ornamental insignias on the corners.

Charles Goldstein constructed the building to house the Goldstein Emporium department store. In addition, it housed other retail businesses and provided office space. The second and third Territorial Legislatures met there on the third floor in 1915 and 1917. Governor Scott C. Bone had his offices on the fifth floor in 1925. In the 1930s it housed the Juneau Business College, a midget golf course, the Lola Mae Alexander Studio for Voice Culture, the Juneau Medical and Dental Clinic, and KINY radio studios and transmitter on the top floor. A fire gutted the building on February 8, 1939. Reconstruction began in 1945. The building re-opened in 1946 with Federal, Territorial and private offices, and six store spaces.

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Inventory of Historic Sites and Structures, City and Borough of Juneau, March 1986; http/www.juneau.org/parkrec/museum/forms/digitalbob/index.php; National Register Nomination, June 17, 1994