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Kennedy Street

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1913-c. 1915. Between Fourth and Sixth streets

The neighborhood of Starr Hill was one of the first residential areas to develop after the original townsite. In the first few decades of Juneau's development, the hard-rock mining companies provided housing for their workers, until local businessmen recognized it as an opportunity. In 1913 city leaders requested the Alaska Juneau Mining Company not to build such housing, preferring to leave it to the free market. The mining company complied, and much of the newly developing Starr Hill neighborhood, near the mines behind Juneau, was constructed as speculative, rental housing.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Alison K. Hoagland
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What's Nearby

Mine Workers' Houses
Bungalows
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Churches

Citation

Alison K. Hoagland, "Kennedy Street", [Juneau, Alaska], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AK-01-SE024.

Print Source

Buildings of Alaska, Alison K. Hoagland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 177-177.

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