Dispatch Building/ Gross Apartments
Location: 307 S. Franklin Street
AHRS#: JUN-181
CBJ#: A-02
Parcel#: 1C070H020020
Year Built: 1915
Architectural Style: Early 20th Century Commercial
Architect/Contractor: unknown
Historic Name: Dispatch Building/ Gross Apartments
Historic Period: Territorial Gov
Historic Integrity: altered/ contributing
Neighborhood: Juneau Downtown Historic District
Date of Local Designation: Not Designated
Date of National Register Designation: 06/17/1994
Additional Information
The rectangular-shaped, three-story reinforced concrete building measures 40' x 40'. It has a concrete foundation, a partial basement, and a flat roof. Windows on the second and third floors are double hung. Storefront has two entrances and three fixed plate glass windows. There is a secondary cornice between the second and third floors with decorative corbels. A third floor was added in the late 1990s. Although significantly altered, the building retains the visual elements of the original front facade with a low front parapet, boxed cornices and decorative corbels. It has a sidewalk canopy.
Historic Usecommercial/ residential
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, 1994