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Boxing Shed/Barreling Shed
St. Paul Island

Return to Seal Islands Historic District National Historic Landmark

National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form text:

Built in the 1920s. Balloon framed, one and one-half story, horizontal clapboard siding; same design and materials as Blubbering House and Kench House. Building was lengthened in the 1930s. Originally a kench house, later a barrel shed, presently storage. Needs structural repairs (Faulkner 1986).

Photo of long white building from a northeasterly view.
Boxing Shed, October 2, 1985 (NMML Photo Library).

Photo of long white building from a southwesterly view.
Boxing Shed, October 2, 1985 (NMML Photo Library).

Supplemental information provided by NOAA:

1930. Footings were laid for an extension to the salt house with intentions of also using it to barrel skins (Bower 1931, 76). NOAA razed the barreling shed in 2000.

 
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NOAA created this product in partial fulfillment of a memorandum of agreement between it and the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer.
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/
http://www.dnr.state.ak.us/parks/oha/shpo/shpo.htm
Last update June 29, 2008