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Blubbering House National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form text: Built in the 1930s. [Wood] Frame building with horizontal clapboard siding; a Butler building type of addition runs perpendicular to and away from the blubbering house. Presently used for storage. Needs structural repairs (Faulkner 1986).
Supplemental information provided by NOAA: A 32 ft. x 70 ft. washhouse to wash and blubber sealskins was constructed in 1921. The facility contained washing tanks, blubbering beams, a motor-driven wringer for drying skins, and other assorted equipment (Bower 1922, 53). Two extensions were added in 1922 (Bower 1923, 83). In 1930, another 43 ft. x 74 ft. extension was added for washing and blubbering the sealskins, and a foundation was laid to expand the washhouse to allow for greater production capacity (Bower 1931, 74). In 1931, an overhead carrying system was installed in the washhouse to facilitate the handling of skins during blubbering operations. The overhead system was also equipped with carriers for blubber removed from the skins. An electrically operated wringer was also added to extract surplus water from blubbered skins (Bower 1932, 75).
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