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Machine Shop
St. Paul Island

Return to Seal Islands Historic District National Historic Landmark

National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form text:

Built in 1938. Two-story, wood frame with large bow-strung trusses. A ramp built of rock leads to second floor storage. Originally machine shop, then fire department, a non-compatible new addition joined the Machine Shop and Equipment Garage in the 1980s. The new addition, which was neither the same material, color, nor style as the two historic buildings it joins, did not destroy the integrity of the two because of their obvious contrast and large size. (Faulkner 1986)

Photo of the machine shop, a geen building with a curved roof.
Machine Shop, after demolition of the connector building, October 11, 2006 (NOAA).

Photo of a northeasterly view of southwest elevation of the machine shop, a geen building with a curved roof.
Machine Shop, October 1, 1985 (NMML Photo Library).

Supplemental information provided by NOAA:

1938–1939. Construction on a new Machine Shop that “will house all machinery and tools required in a first-class repair shop” began in 1938 and was completed in 1939 (Bower 1940, 148; Bower 1941, 161). An addition constructed in the early 1970's, later known as the Machine Shop Annex, became severely corroded and it was demolished in 2005 by NOAA during the environmental restoration project.

 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration logo.

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