Shelter Cabins, Historic Structure Report - Part 1; Initial Assessment, Cape Krusenstern National Monument
Snow D, Brown B, Pittinger D, Gleeson P. 1985. Shelter Cabins, Historic Structure Report - Part 1; Initial Assessment, Cape Krusenstern National Monument. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Alaska Regional Office
At the request of the Cape Krusenstern National Monument park superintendent, Alaska Regional Historical Architect Dave Snow and Historian Bill Brown visited Cape Krusenstern National Monument in August 1985 to evaluate the historical and architectural values of two mail shelter cabins on the coast of the area. Cabin #1 was to be evaluated also in terms of potential adaptive use by the NPS as a ranger or visitor contact facility. This Historic Structure Report, Part 1 presents the initial assessment of the shelter cabins. The shelter cabins recall the later days of extension of territorial overland communications and transportation facilities into the remote Arctic regions of Alaska via the designated mail trail from Kotzebue to Point Barrow, operating from the mid-1920s until circa 1950. The use of this system in the remote sector of Alaska decreased as airplanes and airfields replaced the utility of the overland dog-sled mail trails. The assessment report describes the condition of each shelter cabin and the recommended treatment.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Snow, Dave; Brown, Bill; Pittinger, Dean; Gleeson, Paul
- Date of Issue
- 1985-11-01
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- AKR , CAKR
- Keywords
- ACR-Nome, airfield, Alaska Natives, Alaska Road Commission, Alaskan bush, communication, contact station, hewn logs, Kobu, Kotzebue, local informant, log structure, mail, mail trail, mining camp, Point Barrow, ranger station, River, Search and Rescue, Shelter, stencil, transportation, trapping
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 035005: Shelter Cabin No.1 , CRIS-HS: 035006: Shelter Cabin No.2