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Kench House
St. Paul Island

Return to Seal Islands Historic District National Historic Landmark

National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form text:

Built in 1930. [Wood] frame building with horizontal clapboard siding. Building was lengthened in the 1930s. Originally the kench house, then drying shed (for drying seal skins); presently used for storage. Needs structural repairs (Faulkner 1986).

Supplemental information provided by NOAA:

According to Bureau of Fisheries Field Assistant Ward Bower (1923, 83), the old salt house (kench) was torn down in 1921 and construction began during that year on a new kench house. Two kench houses would be within the village with this additional structure.

 
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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.
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Last update June 29, 2008