Historic Structures Database
Seward Building
Location: 145 S. Franklin Street
AHRS#: JUN-187
CBJ#: A-26
Parcel#: 1C070B0H0010
Year Built: 1913
Architectural Style: Late Victorian
Architect/Contractor: unknown
Historic Name: Seward Building
Historic Period: Territorial Gov
Historic Integrity: preserved/ contributing
Neighborhood: Juneau Downtown Historic District
Date of Local Designation: Not Designated
Date of National Register Designation: 06/17/1994
Additional Information
The two-story wood frame building measures 48' x 68'. It has a concrete foundation and a flat roof. The first floor has storefront windows with transom windows above the sidewalk canopy and a recessed entryway. The building has horizontal drop wood siding. There are multiple decorated box cornices along the roof-line and a secondary cornice above the first floor. There is decorative horizontal wood work with additional cornices between floors.
Historical InformationConstructed for Judge Thomas Lyons, Assistant Attorney General and original trustee of township land claim entries, R.E. Robertson, one-time mayor of Juneau and J.F. Mullen, editor of Alaska Daily Record. The building had retail space on the first floor and office space on the second floor. The retail space was occupied by the Nugget Shop, Britts Pharmacy and others. The offices housed the Alaska Steamship Company and office of the federal food administrator and the law firm Gunnison and Robertson.
Historic Usecommercial
SourceInventory 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, 1964
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