Semple/ Guyot House

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The structure is one-and-one-half stories. It is wood frame with a moderate pitched front gabled roof and a concrete foundation with vertical wood skirting. There is a centered horizontal rectangular window in the top section of the gable front. It features wide overhanging eaves, exposed rafter ends and decorative gable braces. It also has a small open partial width shed roofed front porch with plain columns and a fully enclosed gable roofed rear porch. It has a variety of window styles, as well as wood steps, deck and railing.

Robert Semple, born in Michigan in 1869, came to Alaska in 1897. He established himself as an important contractor building stamp mills and canneries through southeast. In Juneau, Semple constructed the Scottish Rite Temple, a school, and installed the Juneau Lumber Mill power plant. Semple bought Lot 4 in 1907 and on it built two houses, 604 and 618 Gold. Through the years he lived at both addresses. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Guyot bought the house in 1926. Guyot was a traveling salesman, probably a wholesale grocer, who was active in Juneau by 1911. The Guyots lived at 618 Gold for many years.

residential

Juneau Townsite Building Survey, City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, September 1988