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Bunkhouses

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1908 and 1910, bunkhouses on National Creek; 1917, west bunkhouse
  • Bunkhouse (HABS)

The people who worked at Kennecott also had to be provided for. Bunkhouses for the workers, who were all single men, were located near the heart of the operation, on National Creek, and on the McCarthy side of the complex. These were three-and-a-half-story buildings with shed-roofed dormers.

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Author: 
Alison K. Hoagland
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Alison K. Hoagland, "Bunkhouses", [Chitina, Alaska], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AK-01-SC119.5.

Print Source

Buildings of Alaska, Alison K. Hoagland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 152-152.

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