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Equipment Garage
St. Paul Island

Return to Seal Islands Historic District National Historic Landmark

National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form text:

Built in the 1930s. Single-story wood frame building with large bow-string trusses (Faulkner 1986).

Photo of low blue building surrounded by small boats and heavy equipment.
Equipment Garage, after demolition of the connector building, September 27, 2006 (NOAA).

Photo of southwesterly view of low blue building with rounded top.
Equipment Garage, October 1, 1985 (NMML Photo Library).

Supplemental information provided by NOAA:

The Equipment Garage (a.k.a., Elephant Hut, Community Garage, and Municipal Garage) was completed in 1931 (Bower 1932, 76). The structure was built to house trucks, tractors, and other motive equipment. The concrete floor was laid in the 54 ft. x 100 ft. structure in 1933 (Bower 1934, 294).  NOAA razed the building in 2007 at the behest of local interests.

 

 
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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