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EDITOR’S NOTE INTRODUCTION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY BACKGROUND STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE PREFERRED TREATMENT RECOMMENDATION ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PART I: HISTORIC BACKGROUND  Photographic Chronology  Changes Over Time  Condition Assessment  Physical Description PART II: TREATMENT AND USE  Preferred Treatment  Treatment Plan BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX A: PAPER/WALL INVENTORY APPENDIX B: BUILDING MOVE 

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Figure 1 Map of Skagway Historic District Figure 2 Site map showing building at its current location, south side of Second Avenue, Block 2, Lot 37 Figure 3 Daily Alaskan article on tourists during the gold rush, July 1898 Figure 4 6th Avenue, ca. 1897, the First Bank of Skaguay Figure 5 “First Bank of Skaguay” ad Figure 6 The First Bank of Skaguary Figure 7 Jeff. Smith’s Parlor, May 30, 1898 Figure 8 Jeff. Smith’s Parlor interior, 1898 with Soapy and members of his gang Figure 9 Newspaper ad for “Jeff Smith’s Parlors” Figure 10 Jeff. Smith’s Parlor, May 30, 1898. Soapy Smith is centered in the doorway Figure 11 Advertisement: “Frank Clancy’s Mirror Saloon” Figure 12 Advertisement: “Clancy’s”” Figure 13 Advertisement: “The Clancy Cafe – Under New Management” Figure 14 Advertisement: “Sans Souci Restaurant” Figure 15 Hose House No. 1 (left) and Hook and Ladder Company (right), ca. 1915 Figure 16 Sanborn Map Company, 1914, Skagway, Alaska Figure 17 Hose House and the Hook and Ladder Company on south side of Sixth Avenue ca. 1916, new Bank of Alaska foundationFigure 18 Clancy’s “A Gentleman’s Resort,” ca. 1898-1899. Shows cornice cut in Hose House shed to accommodate the eave of the Figure 19 Museum building after 1935 with adjacent Hose House Figure 20 Hook and Ladder Company with Hose House in background, ca. 1935. Martin Itjen is holding a section of a “Jeff. SmithFigure 21 Martin Itjen ca. 1935 Figure 22 Martin Itjen and Mae West ca. 1935 Figure 23 Martin Itjen Standing in front of Skagway Streetcar Figure 24 Newspaper coverage of Itjen’s tour to Hollywood, Anchorage Daily Times. Figure 25 Itjen with California tire dealer, on his way to Hollywood Figure 26 George Rapuzzi atop Mount Harding, ca. 1924 Figure 27 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, 1898 Figure 28 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, and Hose House ca. 1935 Figure 29 Jeff Smiths Parlor Museum, ca. 1940s Figure 30 Interior of Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, ca. 1940s. Jack Greisbach is pictured in the foreground Figure 31 George Rapuzzi inside Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, ca. 1960s Figure 32 Edna Rapuzzi giving a tour of the Jeff. Smith’s Parlor Museum, ca. 1970s Figure 33 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum ca. 1963, prior to move to Second Avenue. Figure 34 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, 1963, after the move to 2nd Avenue Figure 35 First Bank of Skaguay, ca. 1897 Figure 36 Jeff. Smith’s Parlor, July 4, 1898 Figure 37 Jeff. Smith’s Parlor on the north side of 6th Avenue, ca. 1898 just before or just after July 4 Figure 38 Interior of Jeff. Smith’s Parlor (room A-1). Soapy is the bearded man in the center Figure 39 Clancy’s 1898-1899 JEFF. SMITHS PARLOR MUSEUM 
 

Figure 40 Sans Souci Restaurant and Oyster Parlor, 1899-1900 Figure 41 Hose House and Hook and Ladder Company on the north side of 6th Avenue, ca. 1901-1916 Figure 42 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum and Hose House Company on the south side of 6th Avenue, ca. 1935 Figure 43 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, on the south side of 6th Avenue, 1948 Figure 44 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, Hose House on the south side of 6th Avenue, no date Figure 45 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, Hose House on the south side of 6th Avenue, 1961 Figure 46 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum being moved onto 2nd Avenue, 1963 Figure 47 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum on 2nd Avenue, 1963 Figure 48 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum on the south side of 2nd Avenue, ca. 1966 Figure 49 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum on 2nd Avenue, 1979 Figure 50 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum on the south side of 2nd Avenue, ca. 1979 Figure 51 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, north and west elevations, July 2008 Figure 52 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, south and west elevations, October 2009 Figure 53 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, false-front, north elevation, July 2008 Figure 54 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, south and east elevations, October 2009 Figure 55 First Bank of Skaguay, ca. 1897 Figure 56 Jeff. Smith’s Parlor. on the north side of 6th Avenue, ca. 1898 just before or just after July 4 Figure 57 Jeff. Smith’s Parlor, interior 1898 with Soapy and members of his gang Figure 58 Clancy’s 1899 Figure 59 San Souci Restaurant and Oyster Parlor, 1899-1900 Figure 60 Hose House and Hook and Ladder Company on the north side of Sixth Avenue, ca. 1915 Figure 61 Sanborn fire insurance map of Skagway, Alaska, 1948 Figure 62 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, and Hose House ca. 1935 Figure 63 Interior of Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum with Martin Itjen behind the bar ca. 1935 Figure 64 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, view towards southeast, 1979 Figure 65 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, view towards southwest, 1979 Figure 66 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, north facing false front, July 2008 Figure 67 Interior of Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, ca. 1960s Figure 68 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum northeast elevation, October 2009 Figure 69 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum southwest corner, July 2008 Figure 70 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum northeast corner, October 2009 Figure 71 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum northwest corner, July 2008 Figure 72 Cave-in along west side beneath section A-2 July 2008 Figure 73 Crawl Space A, section A-1 looking west at log foundation supported by cut log on concrete pier, July 2008 Figure 74 Crawl Space A section A-2 cellar with log sill atop concrete walls, July 2008 Figure 75 Crawl Space A, section A-1 looking south toward Crawl A section A-2, July 2008 Figure 76 Crawl Space A, section A-2 cellar south wall looking toward Crawl B, July 2008 Figure 77 North elevation windows and door Figure 78 Northwest corner sinking into grade with grass covering the water table 

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Figure 79 False front with painted sign, north elevation Figure 80 Northwest elevation Figure 81 East elevation window, July 2008 Figure 82 East elevations, July 2008 Figure 83 South elevation, July 2008 Figure 84 West elevation entrance and jail-like false facade and mounted metal bars, July 2008 Figure 85 Deteriorating boards at crawl space on the west elevation, July 2008 Figure 86 Parlor museum roof, view from southwest, July 2008 Figure 87 Eave connection at southeast corner of roof section A (shingles) and northeast corner (rusted metal) of roof section B, JFigure 88 Roof Plan from HABS drawings, July 2008 Figure 89 Temporary roof being installed, October 2009 Figure 90 North peak and gable of roof section B ridge covered with sheet metal, July 2008 Figure 91 East slope of roof section A, masonry chimney and detached chimney pipe, July 2008 Figure 92 View of roof looking north toward back of false front, July 2008 Figure 93 Northwest end of roof section A and back of false front, July 2008 Figure 94 Interior view of room A-1 looking north toward front door, July 2009 Figure 95 East interior wall room A-1 showing old door frame and remnants of felted cardboard, July 2009 Figure 96 Painted beadboard and porcelain sink in bathroom, July 2009 Figure 97 Toilet flange and doorway into bathroom from Room A-1, July 2009 Figure 98 Wall in southwest corner of Room A-2, notice signs of water damage to boards, July 2009 Figure 99 Southwest corner of Room A-2, with felted sheet cardboard still covering walls, July 2008 Figure 100 North wall of Room B and doorway from Room A-2, July 2008 Figure 101 Ceiling and wall in northeast corner of Room B, notice minor bubbling in white paper ceiling, July 2009 Figure 102 Northeast part of ceiling in Room C showing signs of water damage in the white paper covering Figure 103 Southwest corner of Room C showing walls in fair condition and white paper covering on ceiling and portion of east waFigure 104 Charred ridge board, rafters and collar ties in attic section B. Figure 105 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, west elevation with section labels. Figure 106 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, north and south elevations, July 2008 Figure 107 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, south and east elevations, July 2009 Figure 108 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, interior floor plan with room labels Figure 109 Log foundation along east wall of section A-1, July 2008 Figure 110 Log foundation along west wall of section A-2, July 2008 Figure 111 North false-front facade with horizontal shiplap siding, July 2008 Figure 112 West facade with vertical board and batten siding, July 2008 Figure 113 Window and main doorway on north elevation, July 2008 Figure 114 Windows and main doorway on north elevation, July 2008 Figure 115 Window with metal bars on east elevation, July 2009 Figure 116 Metal gable roof of section B and C, southwest elevation, July 2008 Figure 117 Metal gable roof with cedar shingles, section A northwest elevation, July 2009 

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Figure 118 Attic A-1 rafters at ridge line, July 2008 Figure 119 Attic A-1 rafters and skip sheathing, July 2008 Figure 120 Attic A-1 rafters ends at top plate, July 2008 Figure 121 Attic B ridge board, rafters and collar ties, July 2008 Figure 122 Attic C rafters and collar ties Figure 123 Attic C ridge line, rafters and collar ties Figure 124 Tongue and groove flooring in Room A-1 with view of flush mounted trap door, July 2009 Figure 125 Flooring in B looking into A-2 from the south, July 2009 Figure 126 Sub-flooring in A-1 with 3 3/4” x 3/4” boards, July 2009 Figure 127 Sub-flooring in small section of A-1 with spaced out, newer 5” boards, July 2009 Figure 128 West wall of A-1 with historic newspapers and other paper memorabilia, July 2008 Figure 129 Same west wall of A-1 after museum curators stripped wall, July 2009 Figure 130 Southwest corner of A-1 with historic newspaper and other paper memorabilia, July 2008 Figure 131 Same corner of A-1 after museum curatorial staff stripped the wall, July 2009 Figure 132 Doorway connecting A-1 and A-2, view from A-2 looking north, July 2008 Figure 133 Boarded up double doors on south wall of C that were once an exit from the building, July 2009 Figure 134 On the left is door on north wall of B that connected the buildings when connected off-center on the south side of 6th AvFigure 135 On the right is the doorway that currently connects B and C to A, July 2009 Figure 136 Bar in Room A-1, view to the north, July 2009 Figure 137 Desktop and shelf in A-1, view to the south, July 2009 Figure 138 Room A-2 with cast iron stove and iron scaffolding, July 2009 Figure 139 Rooms B and C with bull moose with locked antlers , July 2009 Figure 140 Sink and plumbing in bathroom, July 2008 Figure 141 Knob and tube electric wiring in northeast corner of Room A-1, July 2008 Figure 142 Crawl Space and Roof Plan drawings from HABS, July 2008 Figure 143 Window plans from HABS, July 2008 Figure 144 Wall plans from HABS, July 2008 Figure 145 Sectional HABS drawing, view of south end of the building on the west elevation, July 2008 Figure 146 Sectional HABS drawing, view of north end of the building west elevation, July 2008 Figure 147 North and South elevation HABS drawings, showing uneven grade, July 2008 Figure 148 The Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum on the south side of Sixth Avenue, ca. 1930s Figure 149 The rear portion of the Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building (Rooms B and C) prepared for relocation to 2nd Avenue in Figure 150 The rear portion of the Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building (Rooms B and C), 1963-1964 Figure 151 A current image of the opening in north wall of Room B that corresponds with the doorway in Figures 135 and 136 Figure 152 A close-up view behind the piece of wood covering the opening in the north wall of Room B, Figure 147 Figure 153 Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, 1964. The rear of extant building (Rooms B and C) is being attached to main buildFigure 154 This image is a current photograph showing the interior of the double doors located on the south wall of Room C, July 2

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Research into a legendary, slippery character such as Jefferson “Soapy” Randolph Smith quickly becomes entangled in 

eyewitness accounts, romanticized histories, and frustrated by incomplete records. Therefore, some background to thproject seems justified. I am the fourth contributor to this HSR following Karl Gurcke, KLGO Historian, as well as Michael Richman, Historian Interns.During the era of Martin Itjen, most sources say he took over Soapy’s Parlor in 1935, but one article says 1924! The Itjen was paying the taxes on the structure in 1935, but ownership records say he didn’t purchase it until 1939. Itjen Parlor Museum by 1937 in the Skagway Cheechako. He published two books, one in 1933, Historic and Scenic Views 

way, and one in 1934, The Story of the Tour, based on his streetcar tour of Skagway. Neither mentions the museum, bThe Story of the Tour, published in 1938, 1948, 1955, and 1962, mention that the books and records (a 78 rpm vinyl on his tour) are “on sale at Soapy Smith’s old saloon, now a museum.” Since Itjen apparently never missed a promotican safely say the museum was not open in 1934. However, to complicate the issue, The Story of the Tour continues t

the 1955 and 1962 editions, when the museum was closed. Sigh. It is very possible some confusion comes from the a Museum of ‘98 in the 1920s.Simply trying to determine when George Rapuzzi moved and opened his version of the Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum itographs of the move are dated 1963 and 1964, but these are processing dates and only prove when the film was procSeveral sources say he opened the parlor museum in 1963. The local newspaper, The North Wind, has a brief notice i

saying the museum would be ready to open the next summer (1964). However, the same sort of notice is in the pap1965, and May 1966. Only by June 1967 can we be relatively certain the parlor museum was finished and open, as a says, “New: the Soapy Smith’s Museum on 2nd nr (sic) White Pass depot. Now open.” 

Several authors of books on Smith or the Gold Rush use the same quote: “It looked innocent enough, with its polish

fretwork screens, and its artificial palm trees, but into Jeff Smith’s Parlor the suckers were lured like so many flies by thexpanding organization. Behind the main restaurant and bar was a ‘pretty back parlor, as cozy as a lady’s boudoir,’ in way Alaskan, and it was here that the unwary were cheated or robbed of their money...” This is a quote from Pierre B

He quotes from the Alaskan, but doesn’t say whether it is from the Daily Alaskan, published during the gold rush, or 

published under that name in the 1920s and again in the 1950s. The entire quote is then used in a book by authors and Beth Kay Harris, Soapy Smith: King of the Frontier Con Men, attributing it to the Skagway Alaskan, apparently no

quoting only a few words. The editor has read through the entire collection of the Skagway Alaskan, published under 1928 and again from 1952-1954. No such quote comes from this newspaper. Other authors have used this same qu

the Skagway Alaskan. I’m suspecting that Robertson and Harris took the quote from Berton, mistakenly using the en

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notice that Skagway was not italicized in the Berton book, only the word Alaskan. In his bibliography, Berton lists th

notes he used issues from 1898-1899. But that would be the Daily Alaskan. Other authors have probably lifted the q

Robertson and Harris, perpetuating the mistake. Moreover, some accounts say there was a backyard at Soapy’s saloon were lured to see a stuffed eagle. In reality, Smith did possess an eagle briefly. He purchased a captive eagle a few dayas reported in the Daily Alaskan on July 2nd. There is a photograph of Smith’s float in the parade on the 4th, includi

a bit unnecessary if the eagle was stuffed. This is all an excellent example of why we check sources.After all that, the reader may wonder why I left this quote in the Historic Structure Report. The quote is so well kno

how people see Jefferson Randolph Smith and how he has been built into a myth. Considering how important that mSkagway’s tourism industry, I find it appropriate to include it, but with the aforementioned caveat. As the wise old edreporter at the end of the movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend

agree with this comment, but the legend should be included—just not in place of the facts.The description of the treatment plan is outdated in this way: Stabilization treatment has begun. The newspapers an

stuck on the interior walls have been removed and curated into the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. Tstaff have installed a temporary metal roof to prevent further leaks and foundation repairs are scheduled for summer 2Robert Lyon, editorAnchorage, AlaskaMay 2010

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Figure 1: Map of Skagway Historic District (NPS, July 2009). 

Figure 2: Site map showing Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum at side of Second Avenue, Block 37, Lot 2 (NPS July 2008).

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This Historic Structure Report (HSR) documents the Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building located within the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (KLGO), the Skagway Historic District, and the Skagway and White Pass District National Historic Landmark in Skagway, Alaska. KLGO encompasses the Alaskan units of the Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park which also includes the Seattle, Washington Unit (KLSE), and the Canadian Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site and Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Sites. The treatment recommendations are based on a condition assessment and Historical American Buildings Survey (HABS) conducted in July and August 2008 by the National Park Service (NPS) Alaska Regional team of Grant Crosby, Historical Architect, Tara Ikenouye, Historian Intern, and Lisl Coady, Maggie Fernandez and Haruna Madono, Architecture Interns; further contributions of historical background and research were provided by Karl Gurcke, NPS Historian KLGO, and Historian Intern Michael Richman, Alaska Regional Office. 

Further assistance was provided by conservator, Debbie Sanders, Museum CHouston, Architectural Historian AlDeb Boettcher, Museum Technician KDirector of the Skagway Museum. ThRobert Lyon, Historian, KLGO and AThese recommendations comply with tthe Secretary of the Interior’s Standa

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The Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building was the headquarters 

for Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith during his tenure as self-anointed king of Skagway, Alaska, during the Klondike Gold Rush. From there he controlled a gang of con men, thieves and cutthroats. J. D. Stewart, a gold miner returning from the Klondike, was robbed of his gold dust by members of Soapy’s gang, which led to Soapy’s death in a gun battle with Frank Reid at the front of Juneau Wharf, on the evening of July 8, 1898. Soapy, of course, was one of the better known characters of the Klondike stampede. The story of how he took over Skagway and allegedly ran it to suit his own needs and how he died is found in virtually every book on the gold rush.This is the traditional story, much of which is disputed by more recent research. However, there is no disputing the importance of Soapy to the tourist industry in Skagway. The parlor museum building is also very strongly 

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BACKGROUND

associated with the Skagway Fire DeparGeorge Rapuzzi, and early Skagway touribuilding became property of the Skagway served as the garage or shed for the Hook aMartin Itjen arrived in Alaska in 1898, and stampeding in British Columbia he returned to He served as the town undertaker, coal delivereagent and became the premier figure in the industry. In the early 1920s he developed a touand in the 1930s purchased and remodeled tturned it into the Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum as his tour.2 Itjen also began filling the building w1. Karl Gurcke, “Jefferson Randolph ‘Soapy’ Smith’s ParHistory” (National Park Service, Klondike Gold Rush NSkagway, Alaska, May 4, 2009), 4, 8.2. Howard Cliff ord, 

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He was an active promoter of Skagway’s frontier mythology and early 

tourism business and ran the parlor museum until his death in 1942. George Rapuzzi was born in Skagway, Alaska, in 1899. He continued in Itjen’s footsteps as Skagway tourism promoter and collector of gold rush memorabilia. Rapuzzi acquired the building following Itjen’s death in 1942. He began paying taxes on the lot in 1945, but the parlor museum was run by Itjen’s friend and former conductor on one of Itjen’s tour buses, Jack Grelsbach, until 19503 before closing for a little over 

a decade. In order to be closer to the docks and the tourists, Rapuzzi moved the parlor museum to 2nd Avenue in 1963, remodeled it once again and by 1967 reopened the parlor museum for another 10-15 years.4

Following Rapuzzi’s death in 1986, the parlor museum passed, along with a large collection of memorabilia and artifacts related to 3. Cliff ord,

Th e Skagway Story, 100

4. Frank Norris, Gawking at the Midnight Sun: Th e Tourist in Early Alaska, Alaska 

Historical Commission Studies in History no. 170 (Anchorage, AK: Alaska Resource Library and Information Services, 1985), 129; Cliff ord, Skagway Story, 96-99. 

Skagway history, to his niece, Phyllis 2007 sold both to the Rasmuson FounFoundation is an Alaskan based philfounded in 1955. It operates only witgiving grants to non-profit organizationprojects. The Rasmuson Foundation museum to the National Park ServGold Rush National Historical Park This report is arranged chronologically and significant functions associated starting with the First Bank of SkagGeorge Rapuzzi and the Jeff. Sm5. Alaska National Parks News Release, “CollecGold Rush, Skagway History,” April 26, 2007; “Charity, Inc.,” Anchorage Daily News, Decemb

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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

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The Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building is significant for its role in keeping the story of Skagway in the mind of the touring public for over a hundred years and its association with the individuals who maintained it. In its early days, one part of the current building was headquarters of the infamous Skagway crime boss Soapy Smith. It remained a key part of Skagway history as it was converted into a gold rush museum in tribute to Soapy Smith and the gold rush era by Martin Itjen and maintained as such into the 1980s by George Rapuzzi. The Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building meets the National Register Criterion A as it has been an important part of the legacy of tourism in Skagway and remains a significant structure as a part of both historic and present day tourist activity in the area.The building is currently located within the Skagway Historic District on the south side of 2nd Avenue between Broadway and State Streets (Block 37, Lot 2).The National Historic Landmark (NHL) nomination 

form for the Skagway and WHistorical Landmark lists the “Soapy” Smith Parlor as contribut

The parlor museum building was an Martin Itjen’s Skagway tours, which starcontinued until Itjen’s death in 1942. Itjup at the wharf and drive them arountours in his “Skagway street cars,” pogold rush era sites. In 1923, he even tG. Harding on a tour of historic Skagparlor museum was added to the many Itjen died in 1942, and the parlor museum 1950, under the supervision of Jack Grel6. Bonnie Houston, Frank Norris and Terrance Coand White Pass District National Historic LandmaNational Register of Historic Places Inventory- RegForm, Anchorage, AK: National Park Service, 19997. Barbara Kalen, Alaska Sportsman, Nov. 1963, 32

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Cruise ships continued to arrive through 

After a brief period of decline during tourism in Skagway picked up again i1930s. By the end of the 1930s, tourpart of Skagway’s local economy and re

and one of his tour guides. In 1963-64, the museum was moved to 2nd Avenue by owner George Rapuzzi. Rapuzzi re-opened the museum by 1967 8and kept it open for approximately 15 years.9

The legacy of tourism in southeastern Alaska dates back to the 1880s and by the time of the Klondike Gold Rush tourism was a well established business in the region.10 The first documented tourists to come to 

Skagway arrived in July 1898.11 (Figure 3) By the following year, the 

Skagway Chamber of Commerce had organized its first annual city wide clean up day to beautify the city for the tourist season. By 1906, the first tourist pamphlets advertised the city as an ideal destination, emphasizing the many beautiful gardens and gold rush history. By 1908, tourists were visiting the grave site of the infamous Soapy Smith.12

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Th e North Wind, July 15, 1967, 1.

9. Gurcke, “Soapy Smith’s Parlor”, 6; Norris, Gawking at the Midnight Sun, 158; 

Cliff ord, Skagway Story, 95-99.

10. Bonnie Houston, “Historic Preservation in Skagway: A Guide to Planning” (M.A. thesis, Arizona State University, 2000), 54-55; Norris, Gawking at the 

Midnight Sun, 16-21.11. 

Th e Daily Alaskan, July 25, 1898, 1.

12. Frank Norris, Legacy of the Gold Rush: An Administrative History of Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (Anchorage, AK:National Park Service Alaska System Support Offi ce, 2006), 28.

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War II. During the war travel to Alaska was restricted by the 

U.S. Army for security reasons, which brought tourism to a screeching halt. However, the war did bring jobs and soldiers who spent their pay in town. After the war Skagway residents again turned to tourism to help boost the town’s struggling economy. By the late 1940s, more tourists than ever before were visiting Alaska, a change Skagway residents welcomed and encouraged through town beautification projects and restoration efforts. Starting in the 1930s, there had been notions to create a National Park in Skagway. But by the 1950s residents began to actively embrace the idea. They understood that a National Park would attract more tourists that the town now desperately depended on for its economic survival.13 A step in this direction was 

achieved June 13, 1962, when the town and the surrounding area became a National Historic Landmark. Skagway, like much of Alaska, relied heavily on tourism and its citizens began to take an active role in promoting the industry. Numerous hotels, gift 

13. Houston, “Historic Preservation in Skagway,” 69-79; Norris, Legacy of the Gold Rush, 33-34.

shops, transportation networks and other rsprang up around the city. Citizens also brestoration projects during the decade, fixinthe downtown area to appear as they did dIt was during this era of new found enpromotion that George Rapuzzi reopenMuseum by 1967.14 In 1972, Skagway b

Alaska to designate a historic district, settindowntown to preserve the historic buildinhistoric area. The following year the city district commission with an eye to plook of the town. In 1976, President Geauthorizing the creation of the Klondike Historical Park. The National Park Serbuildings in Skagway’s historic district to and working to restore them to their gol

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When the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad closed in 1982, 

Skagway was even more dependent on tourism for its economic survival. The National Park Service offered aid in preservation and promotion of the local historic area.15 In that same year, 1982, over 49,000 people visited Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park and by the end of the decade over 100,000 visited the park annually.16In the nineteenth century, the Klondike Gold Rush attracted international attention to Skagway as stampeders, merchants, photographers, entrepreneurs and con men all sought fortunes in the mountains beyond. Today the city of Skagway continues to host a variety of international visitors as part of the city’s thriving tourist and cruise industry.Tourism is now the major industry in Skagway; it generates most of the employment and income in the city.17 By 2008, downtown Skagway received over 1,000,000 visitors in its tourist season from mid-May to mid-September.1815. Houston, “Historic Preservation in Skagway,” 81, 92-94.16. National Park Service Public Use Statistics Offi ce, “Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Alaska,” National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, available at http://www.nature.nps.gov/stats/viewReport.cfm.17. “Economic Impact of Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park,” 4.18. http://skagwaydevelopment.org/skagwayeconomy.html

Many of these visitors are attracted to “Soapy” Smith; a story made vibrant former museum owners and operatGeorge Rapuzzi, and the existence oMany visitors today still visit the parlor its doors have been closed to the public The building remains significant not oto the Klondike Gold Rush era, but preserving the century-long legacy oand the Klondike Gold Rush Nat

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PREFERRED TREATMENT RECOMMENDATION

As a contributing resource to the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park and the National Historic Landmark, the Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum must be restored and maintained. Neglect, multiple moves and effects of time have contributed to the deterioration of this building to the point that stabilization efforts are paramount to any other preservation treatments. The museum lists significantly to the west because the partial log and concrete foundation has failed and the building is sinking into grade. The walls along the northeastern section of the building are detached from the sill plate and foundation and are bowing outward. Sections of the wood cedar shingles are missing, creating gaps and holes that allow moisture to penetrate the building’s roof.Inside the building, moisture and poor ventilation contribute to the degradation of the interior walls. The walls--papered with newspaper clippings, pages from magazines, photographs, and 

pages from books--show evidence of mold many places, the layers of paper and thick stapled to the walls are bubbling and deface. (Note: The newspaper clippings have been removed and curated.) In addin many places throughout the interioindicate that vermin are easily accessing The restoration treatment will require a nestructural enhancement to the building envload bearing members and insulation, cedar metal roofing and site improvements. The associated with the Martin Itjen and Georbe preserved, restored where possible or reGiven the toxicity of the moose and wildrear of the building this space may need visitors, if this display is to remain in 

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Overall, the building exterior must be painted and weatherized, 

and the surrounding site leveled and historic objects curated.The Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum has been associated with several prominent Skagway residents including Jefferson “Soapy” Smith, Martin Itjen and George Rapuzzi. The building is also linked with the historic event of the Klondike Gold Rush and the subsequent development of Skagway from a boom town to an established community, when the building was the garage for the Fire Department’s Hook and Ladder Company. Despite its varied use, restoring the building to interpret the Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum established by Martin Itjen (ca. 1935-1950) and continued by George Rapuzzi (ca. 1963-1986), is recommended. Without Itjen and later Rapuzzi, both of whom “restored” the museum and promoted tourism, the story of Skagway and Soapy Smith might have dimmed. Moreover, given the remodeling history of the building itself, very little of the original fabric from the Soapy Smith era remains intact. Reconstructing the 

building to the “Soapy” Smith era woItjen and Rapuzzi, without whom the have been lost. Restoring the parlor mera would establish a venue to interpreSmith, Itjen, Rapuzzi, and Skagway anan opportunity to experience history as 

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Preferred Structure Name: Structure Number: Park: Structure County: Region: LCS Number: Street AddressLegal DescriptionFacility Maintenance System Software (FMSS) Location:Historic American Buildings Survey Number:

The Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum37BKlondike Gold Rush National HistoricaSkagway-Hoonah-AngoonAlaska729876321 2nd AvenueLot 2, Block 3710957AK-223

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Figure 4: 6th Avenue, ca. 1897, First Bank of Skaguay is the second building from the right. (Alaska State Library, print # PCA258

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PART I: HISTORIC BACKGROUND

Figure 5: “First Bank of Skaguay” ad from Daily 

1897. 

offices located in the Moore Hotel (currently the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and State Strearticles in the Skaguay News and Daily Alaskan 

Canadian Bank of Commerce, with $6,000,000 a branch agency in Skagway. Possibly because First Bank of Skaguay went into receivership. Acc12, 1903, edition of the Daily Alaskan, credi

were being paid approximately 28 percent o

This small, single-story, false-front, wood-frame building was originally located on the north side of 6th Avenue between Broadway and State Streets - Lot 12, Block 3. Early photographs indicate the exterior of the building was initially constructed of solid vertical boards, including the false front, and was most likely the first home of the First Bank of Skaguay (Figure 4). According to an article in the Skaguay News,19 the First Bank of 

Skaguay opened for business on December 21, 1897. However, the exact construction date of the building is unknown. The First Bank of Skaguay advertised itself in the Skaguay News in 189820 as having a Capital Stock of $25,000 with 

C. S. Moody as President and Manager, S. W. Aldrich as Vice President and Fred G. LaPenotiere as Cashier. By the spring of 1898, the First Bank of Skaguay had moved to new 

19. Skaguay News, March 10, 1899.20. Skaguay News, Feb. 11, 1898.FIRST BANK OF SKAGUAY: 1897-1898

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According to the tax records and a Chathe First Bank of Skaguay continued to 1900 but it was sublet by Frank Clancy, with Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smitcalled “King of the Frontier Con Men,” with a few members of his gang so

midwinter, Smith reputedly had his harevenue-raising con game and criminand the little false-fronted “Jeff. Smitheadquarters, though Smith did not May 1898, which leaves open the queshis operations and just how extensive Frank Robertson and Beth Kay 

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following description of Soapy’s Pa

book, Soapy Smith: King of the 

It looked innocent enough, with its poliits fretwork screens, and its artifi cial palm 

Parlor the suckers were lured like so manmain restaurant and bar was a pretty baa lady’s boudoir, and it was here the uor robbed of their money. Behind thenclosed by a high board fence especiala secret exit through which Smith’s gawith their loot. Th e enrage[d] victimvanishing bankroll, would burst out thbe baffl ed by an empty lot and a blank place where the innocents were sometimat ‘the eagle’ only to be slugged and robadmiring the bird, a stuff ed specimen o

Jeff Smith advertised in both Skagway pthe Daily Alaskan from July 2, 1898, a

from June 17, 1898, contained similar Street was the original name of 6th 

22. Skagway Alaskan, quoted in Robertson, Frank CSmith: King of the Frontier Con Men, Hastings Hous1961, p. 191-192. Also quoted in Berton, Pierre, K

Death of the Last Great Gold Rush, Basic Books: N23. See the Editor’s Note about the stuff ed eagle.

Figure 7: Jeff. Smith’s Parlor, May 30, 1898 (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, print #58-1026-1109; KLGO 6th4-206).

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Although the First Bank of Skaguay continued to own the building until 1900, the large sign on the front of the building indicates that Soapy was in charge (Figures 7 and 10). Originally, the bank building was clad with solid vertical boards. It also had a center entrance flanked by windows (Figure 6). Sometime in the spring of 1898, the front was altered by moving the door to the right (east) side and the windows to the left (west) side presumably in order to accommodate the bar, which was on the left side when entering the building. The doors and windows appear to be the same. Smith also added horizontal shiplap drop siding to the front, board and batten siding to the sides and possibly the rear, as well as a large trim piece (cornice board) and overhanging coping to the top of the false front. In addition to the façade sign, historical photographs show an illuminated projecting sign in the center and two small projecting signs on either side of the building front (Figures 7 and 10). It is possible the façade sign was simply the old First Bank of Skaguay signboard, repainted. Note the metal bars that were installed over the front windows in Figure 10.

Smith met his demise within his first yeatime of his Grand Opening in May 1898, 1898, when he died in a gunfight with vigiconducted most of his operations from of the then Jeff. Smith’s Parlor. Following of the building cycled through several esto local newspaper advertisements (FiguOne ad notes the Sans Souci Restaurto Hose Co. No. 1” in 1899, forincarnation of the parlor’s use by a Hook 

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Figure 8: Jeff. Smith’s Parlor interior, 1898 with Soapy and members of his gang (Denver Public Library, print # 02592;KLGO BI 34-1578).

Figure 9: Newspaper ad for “Jeff Smith’s Parlors” from the Daily Alaskan, July 2, 1898, Holly Street was the original name of 6th Avenue.

Figure 10: Jeff. Smith’s Parlor, May 30, 1898. Stered in doorway wearing light colored hat (Univeprint #70-58-246; KLGO SP 153-5733).

Figure 11: “Advertisement: Frank Clancy’s MirrMorning Alaskan, September 23, 1898. 

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Following 1900, the history of thsomewhat obscure. The Skagway CitNovember and December 1900 indicWater Committee, chaired by Lee Gthe parlor), reported that the city could Hook and Ladder Company free of chreport about the city leasing the builHose Company Number 1 building f

January 9, 1901, the city was given a the parlor to fit the needs of the VolunHOOK AND LADDER COMPANY: CA. 190

Figure 12: “Advertisement: Clancy’s,” Morning Alaskan, January16, 1899. 

Figure 13: “Advertisement: The Clancy Cafe – Under New Management,” Daily Alaskan, September 9, 1899. 

Figure 14: “Advertisement: Sans Souci RestaurAlaskan, December 10, 1899. 

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which included the addition of a brick ch

remained in this condition until it was takein 1935,25 and converted into the Jeff. S

A photograph taken between 1901 and 191914 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map (Figure 16to the parlor to convert it to the “Hook & LShed,” or garage. The photograph clearly iunderwent a considerable change including to the left (west) side and replacing both of a large set of double doors needed to accomLadder truck.26 The interior was most likely 

the Hook & Ladder truck. City tax record1903-1907 the improvements (buildings) o

24. Mulvihill, Carl, Personal communication with Historian, Skagway, AK, 199325. Allen, Lois Hudson, Alaska Sportsman, Septemb

26. Assessment and Tax Rolls of the City of SkagwaHistorical Records of the City of Skagway, Alaska, VProceedings of the Board of Equalization, Dec.. 6, Historical Records of the City of Skagway, Vol..... 1

Figure 15: Hose House No. 1 (left) and Hook and Ladder Company (right), ca. 1915 (Library of Congress, Print # 02008u;KLGO 6th 69-9049).

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were free of Skagway city property tax although the land was still taxed.In 1916, the Bank of Alaska bought the land for their new concrete bank headquarters building. The bank then opened in temporary quarters on 5th Ave.27 Construction started on the new building that year and the bank 

was formally opened for business in the new building on March 20, 1917.28

City of Skagway tax records and the Daily Alaskan indicate that “Fire 

Hall No. 2” was moved across 6th Avenue to the east half of Lot 4, Block 2, (Figure 17) in late April 1916, to make way for the new bank building: 

Fire Hall No. 2 is being moved across the street from its former location on Sixth Ave. Workmen have been busily engaged for the last two days rolling the big wooden frame building to its new location. It will be located on property owned by Mr.. Guthrie, located on the same street as formerly, only on the south side of the street. Solid foundations will be placed under the building and it will be in excellent condition in its new found home.29

27. Daily Alaskan, March 20, 1916 28. Daily Alaskan, March 20, 1917 29. “Fire Hall No. 2 Moved Across Street,” Daily Alaskan, April 26, 1916..

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2 in the newspaper article above appears to department’s buildings located on the nortat this time (the Hook and Ladder CompHouse). Therefore, it is logical to assume thmoved at the same time although the artone building was being moved. There is amof both buildings’ presence on the sout(Figure 17 and the Sanborn Fire Insurance m

Figure 17: Hose House (note tower) and the Hook and Ladder Company shed on the south side of Sixth Avenue ca. 1916, new Bank of Alaska foundations shown in the lower right hand part of the photograph (Alaska State Library, print # PCA 25-8; KLGO SO-136-5470).

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It has been suggested that both buildings were moved straight across 6th Avenue, which would have changed the buildings’ fronts into their rears and their rears into their fronts. This would have required extensive work on the outside to convert each building’s rear into its front, and on the inside to rearrange the furnishings. A simple architectural clue on the Hose House indicates instead that both buildings were turned around in the middle of 6th Avenue so that the building’s fronts remained their fronts even though the buildings’ positions were changed. The Hose House was built so close to the adjacent H. A. Bauer store on the north side of 6th Avenue that the cornice board of the Hose House had to be cut or shortened in order to accommodate the eave of the Bauer building (Figure 18). When the building was moved across 6th Avenue, the cut into the cornice board remained (Figure 19). If the building was moved straight across, a new front would likely have been built without the cut in the cornice board but based on photographs after the move (Figure 19) the cut remained, further supporting the idea that the building was indeed turned during 

the move. Given that the fire departturn the Hose House it is likely that the Hook and Ladder Company shed, It appears that the Hook and occupied the building through 1records indicate that the lot was and owned by the City of Ska

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Figure 18: Clancy’s “A Gentleman’s Resort,” ca. 1898-1899. Note the cut in the cornice 

of the Hose House shed to accommodate the eave of the adjacent building (cropped image from Alaska State Library, print # PCA 226-121; KLGO 5th 52-6710).

Figure 19: Museum building after 1935 with adarea highlights the original cut in cornice from wlocated on the north side of Sixth Avenue (Dedma6th32-1641).

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In 1936, city records indicate that “Itjen,” was responsible for the improvements made to the lot in the prior year.30 This coincides with 

the 1935 date when longtime Skagway resident, former stampeder, and early Skagway tourism advocate Martin Itjen took over the building and began the first restoration, creating the “Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum.”Itjen, a German immigrant born January 24, 1870, found his way to Alaska from Jacksonville, Florida, with his wife Lucille in the 1890s.31 In 

Skagway, he worked at several professions. Itjen served as town undertaker, coal deliverer, operated the local Bay View Hotel, opened the first Ford Motorcar dealership in town and ran the Skagway Street Car Company. But most importantly he was the premiere figure of Skagway tourism and remained a tireless tourism promoter until his death in 1942.32

30. Assessment and Tax Rolls of the City of Skagway, Alaska, 1900-1970; Historical Records of the City of Skagway, Alaska, Vols.... 36-80.31. Allen, Lois Hudson, “He Takes ‘Em for a Ride,” Th e Alaskan Sportsman, 

September 1940, p. 14-27, p. 25.32. Wieking, Henry Charles and Robert Henry Wieking, Martin Itjen: A Collection of Memorabilia, Wieking: Ellensburg, WA, 1997, document on fi le in Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Headquarters Library.

MARTIN ITJEN AND JEFF. SMITHS PARLOR MUSEUM: CA. 1935 - 1950

Figure 20: Hook and Ladder Company (left) with (right) ca. 1935. Martin Itjen is holding a section and Edna Rapuzzi Collection, Rasmuson Founda#00069). 

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In 1935, Itjen went on a well-documen

of his famous Skaguay Alaska Street coast to bolster interest and travel to Ska

he met actress Mae West and invited her him in Skagway. Although West never divisit garnered national media coverage for of Skagway. Itjen’s agent, Don Mills, boothe west coast to tell tales of Skagway astampeder and to showcase his street caalmost any venue that would host him incland theatres such as the Paramount in 

33. Itjen built some of his street cars on Ford chassifour cars with electro-mechanical manikins. One cthe front of the car that signaled with its arm left or Another car was equipped with an effi gy of Soapy SStreet Car tours were very popular with tourists arrimet all ships at the dock driving one of his cars and a person. (Allen, “He Takes ‘Em for a Ride,” 14-27)34. “Skagwayan Sees May West and Is Ready to DiAnchorage Daily Times, March. 30, 1935, p. 4, col. 

Figure 21: Martin Itjen ca. 1935, portrait taken at the Kennel Ellis studio in Eugene, Orgeon. (George and Edna Rapuzzi Collection, Rasmuson Foundation, KLGO, print inventory #00339)

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Throughout his life Itjen continued to promote himself, his tours, and Skagway. In 1940, two years before Martin Itjen died, his name appears on the manifest of the S.S. City of San Francisco bound to New York City from San Francisco. Itjen would have been seventy years old at this time and while the purpose of his travel is not known it is likely that he was talking up Skagway coast to coast.35

After acquiring the parlor building, Itjen reconstructed it from the Hook and Ladder Company building to a version of Jeff. Smith’s Parlor which appears to be based on historical photographs, given Itjen’s treatments. Itjen may have used photographs from Decoration Day (now Memorial Day) in 1898, when a banner was draped over the false front, obscuring some of the details of the sign leading Itjen to name his building “Jeff. Smiths Parlor” (The apostrophe was hidden as in Figures 7 and 10.) rather than the “Jeff. Smith’s Parlor” that was the historical name of the building during Jefferson Smith’s time. He replaced the double doors installed by the fire department with the pair 35. S.S. City of San Francisco, Passenger List, Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, 1897-1957.

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of windows and a door. Itjen aligned the he

and door, which is not consistent with hithe parlor during Smith’s time. The windowhistorical photographs from the First Bank oSmith eras and could be original but the In 1935, Itjen started paying taxes oimprovements noted as being worth included a mechanical effigy of Soapy the bar and greeted visitors by turning glass. Itjen papered the interior walls wfrom the gold rush to the 1930s, highSkagway, gold rush events and Itjen’s meHe also pasted receipts, ship manifests, sigrelated to gold rush era Skagway on thclippings and other ephemera have been from the parlor museum as part of the 

Figure 23: Martin Itjen standing in front of a Skagway Streetcar (George and Edna Rapuzzi Collection, Rasmuson Foundation, KLGO, print inventory #00165).

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The Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum was an important part of Itjen’s Skagway tours until his death in 1942. During World War II tourism came to a halt. The Army’s Western Defense Command established an Alaska Travel Office to regulate travel to Alaska--which meant not much travel. After World War II, Itjen’s friends Jack Grelsbach and George Rapuzzi helped Itjen’s wife Lucy briefly keep the museum open.36 Tax records indicate that Rapuzzi took over 

paying taxes on the lot in 1945.37 Lucy Itjen died in 1946, and 

when Grelsbach could no longer assist with museum operations he closed the museum in 1950. Grelsbach died in 1952, and Rapuzzi and his wife, Edna, kept the museum closed during the 1950s.

36. Th ere are various spellings for Jack Grelsbach that include Greisback and Greisbech.37. Assessment and Tax Rolls of the City of Skagway, Alaska, 1900-1970; Historical Records of the City of Skagway, Alaska, Vols... 36-80

Figure 24: Newspaper coverage of Itjen’s tour to HTimes, March 30, 1935.

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Figure 25: Martin Itjen with a California Tire Dealer on his way to 

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Figure 26: George Rapuzzi atop Mt. Ha1924 (George and Edna Rapuzzi CollectFoundation, Klondike Gold Rush Nationprint inventory #00452)

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Figure 28: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum (left), and Hose House (right) ca. 

1935 (Dedman’s Photo Shop; KLGO 6th 10-962). 

Figure 27: Jeff Smith’s Parlor ca. 1898 (British Columbian Archives, print #ZZ-95359, KLGO 6th 50-5600).

When George Rapuzzi took over the Jeff. after World War II, he was still working as a Pass and Yukon Route railroad (WP & YR1899, to Theresa “Ma” and George Rapuyoungest of five children and the only onin Skagway. Like Itjen, Rapuzzi was a loyahistory. He was one of three who climbed a Mount Harding) outside the city to raise asummit to honor President Warren G. H

In 1963 and 1964, before he retired from tRapuzzi moved the museum from 6th Aven2nd Avenue, near Broadway, where it stands 

38. Cliff ord, Howard, Th e Skagway Story, Alaska NoCompany: Anchorage, AK, 1975, 99.

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Figure 29: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, caRapuzzi Collection, Rasmuson Foundation#00052). 

In a November 1963 article in the Alaska Sportsman, Barbara Kalen wrote that Rapuzzi planned to make improvements to the building after moving the structure to 2nd Avenue. Rapuzzi’s plans included putting in a new foundation, replacing the floor in the back room, putting on new corrugated galvanized “tin” roofing, along with replacing the siding with vertical rough planking (board and batten) just as it was during the gold rush.39 Rapuzzi’s photographs of the 1963 move 

show that the two small buildings attached to the back of the historic building were moved along with the parlor museum to 2nd Avenue 

in 1963-64 in order to be closer to the docks and the tourists (Appendix B: 1963 Building Move, Figures 149 and 153). These buildings had been part of the parlor museum since Martin Itjen owned and operated the museum in the 1930s. At that point they were connected to the building off-center. After Rapuzzi moved the parlor museum to 2nd Avenue he reattached and centered the buildings. Thus having moved, repaired, and renovated the building, the Rapuzzis opened the building 

39. Barbara D. Kalen notes in “Th is Month in History,” in the Alaska Sportsman, 

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Figure 30: Interior of Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, ca. 1940s. Jack Greisbach is 

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Figure 31: George Rapuzzi inside Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, ca. 1960s (George and Edna Rapuzzi Collection, Rasmuson Foundation, KLGO print inventory #00076). 

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Figure 32: Edna Rapuzzi giving a tour of the Jeff. Smith’s Parlor 

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Figure 34: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, 1963-1964, after The rear portion of the extant building is being attached to the roof and flashing detail in comparison with Figure 33. Collection, Rasmuson Foundation, Klondike National His#00081.044). 

Figure 33: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum ca. 1963, prior to move to Second Avenue. Note roof detail on building to rear of parlor building--compare to Figure 34. (George and Edna Rapuzzi Collection, Rasmuson Foundation, Klondike National Historical Park, print inventory # 00082.006). 

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PHOTOGRAPHIC CHRONOLOGY

1898: 1897:

Figure 35: First Bank of Skaguay, ca. 1897 (Alaska State Library, print # PCA258-III-85-795A; KLGO 6th-19-1103) cropped and enlarged..

Figure 36: Jeff. Smith’s Parlor, July 4, print # BRSGY007; KLGO 6th 49-5

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Figure 37: Jeff. Smith’s Parlor on the north side of 6th Avenue, ca. 1898 just 

before or just after July 4 (British Columbian Provincial Archives, print # ZZ-95359; KLGO 6th 50-5600).1898

Figure 38: Interior of Jeff. Smith’s Parlor (room A-1). Sbearded man in the center (Yukon Archives, print # 8278-2664).

1898-1900

Figure 39: Clancy’s 1898-1899 (Alaska State Library, print # PCA 226-121; KLGO 5th 52-6710). 

Figure 40: Sans Souci Restaurant and Oyster Parlor, 18Archives, print #5062; KLGO 6th 22-2611).

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Figure 41: Hose House (left) and Hook and Ladder Company (right) 

on the north side of 6th Avenue, ca. 1900-1916 (Library of Congress, print # 02008u; KLGO 6th 69-9049).1900-1916 1935-1948

Figure 42: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum and (right) on the south side of 6th Avenue, ca. 1KLGO 6th 10-962).Figure 43: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum and (right) on the south side of 6th Avenue, 194Canada, print # PA-22465; KLGO 6th 42

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Figure 44: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, on the south side of 6th Avenue (George and Edna Rapuzzi Collection, Rasmuson Foundation, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park print inventory #00074).

Figure 45: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum (left), Hose House (right) on the south side of 6th Avenue, 1961 (NPS Photographer Charles F. Snell; KLGO 6th 41-2025).

Figure 46: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum being movAvenue, 1963-1964 (George and Edna Rapuzzi Rasmuson Foundation, Klondike Gold Rush NatiPark, print inventory #00081).

Figure 47: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum on 2nd A1964 (George and Edna Rapuzzi Collection, RaFoundation, Klondike Gold Rush National Hisinventory #00081.044).

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Avenue, ca. 1966 (George and Edna Rapuzzi Collection, Rasmuson Foundation, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, print inventory #00144).1966-1979

Figure 49: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum on the 1979. North and West Elevations. (NPS PhoKLGO 2nd 6-1863).

Figure 50: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum on the 1979. North and East Elevations (NPS PhotoKLGO 2nd 6-1862).

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Figure 51: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, north and west elevations. (NPS July 23, 2008).Figure 53: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, south and west elevations. (NPS July 23, 2008)

Figure 52: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, False-fronMaintenance Staff installing temporary roof. Samuel Bogg(NPS October 2009).

Figure 54: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, south bushes removed. (NPS June 2009).

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to visitors as the Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum bFollowing George’s death in 1986, the mclosed for good. Edna Rapuzzi died in 1988, a

of their own, the Rapuzzi estate passed to In April 2007, Brown sold the Rapuzzi collectioone of Itjen’s original street cars) and historic bmuseum, to the Alaska-based Rasmuson FounFoundation donated the museum and the oNational Park Service, Klondike Gold Rush Nand the Municipality of Skagway Borough ithe next few years the museum will undergo to once again tell the colorful story of Skag

Figure 55: First Bank of Skaguay, ca. 1897 (Alaska State Library, print #PCA258-III-85-795A; KLGO 6th-19-1103) cropped and enlarged.JEFF. SMITHS PARLOR MUSEUM C
Figure 56: Jeff. Smith’s Parlor. on the north side of 

just before or just after July 4 (British Columbian print # ZZ-95359; KLGO 6th 50-5600).

FIRST BANK OF SKAGUAY

CA. WINTER 1897-1898

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SPRING-SUMMER 1898

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Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith Jr. and Frparlor in the building starting in the May of 1in July 1898. Based on photographs from thiand window arrangement is different from the Bfront façade and the interior has been convertparlor with a bar along the west wall.Building Characteristics:Exterior•Cedar shingle roof.•Overhanging coping.•Larger cornice board.•Horizontal shiplap drop siding added to front.•Board & batten siding added to side.•Body paint – light colored.

Figure 57: Jeff. Smith’s Parlor, interior 1898 with Soapy and members of his gang (Denver Public Library, print # 02592;KLGO BI 34-1578).

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•Front trim paint – darker color.

•Façade sign altered and moved to top of front.•Center door moved to the east (right).•Two windows moved to the west (left).•Tops of windows above top of door.•Metal bars installed on lower half of windows.•Addition of large lighted projecting box sign.•Two small projecting signs added to either side.•Window on east elevation.•Presence of stove pipe above roof line.•Note the apostrophe in the sign.Interior•Wood bar along west wall.•Stove pipe connecting to corner stove.•Bare light bulbs dangling from ceiling.•Shelf on wall behind the bar.•Wallpapered walls and ceiling.•Plank, possibly painted floor.____________MIRROR SALOON

SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 1898

Figure 58: Clancy’s 1899 (Alaska State Library, p121; KLGO 5th 52-6170).

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Th ere are no known photographs of the buildinonly advertisements from period newspapeestablishment.____________CLANCY’SJANUARY – JULY 18996th Avenue (north side) – building fronts south.Building Characteristics:Exterior•Façade sign removed, replaced by sign painted dire•Large lighted projecting box sign removed, but unremains.____________ Figure 59: San Souci Restaurant and Oyster Parlor, 1899-1900 

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JULY TO DECEMBER 1899

6th Avenue (north side) – building fronts south.There are no known photographs of the building as The Clancy Café, only advertisements from period newspapers that refer to this establishment as reopened under new management.___________SANS SOUCI40 RESTAURANT AND OYSTER PARLOR

CA. DECEMBER 1899-FALL 1900 

6th Avenue (north side) – building fronts south.Building Characteristics:New two-line painted sign on front façade.The word “oyster” is painted on either side of the front façade.The two small projecting signs disappear.40. Sans Souci is French, meaning without care or a place to relax.

Figure 60: Hose House (on the left with doors open) Ladder Company on the north side of Sixth Avenue, of Congress, Print # 02008u;KLGO 6th69-9049).

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SKAGWAY FIRE DEPARTMENT H

COMPANY SHED/GARAGE

FALL 1900 TO 1935

6th Avenue (north side) from 1900-1south/6th Avenue (south side) from 19fronts north.After 1900, the City of Skagway puhouse the Fire Department’s Hook and the building was significantly 

Figure 61: Sanborn fire insurance map of Skagway, Alaska, 1948. Note Museum and Old Fire Ho. 1 located on south side of 6th Avenue (Sanborn Map Company, 1948; KLGO Library).

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Figure 61: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum (left), and 

(Dedman’s Photo Shop; KLGO 6th 10-962). 

remained on 6th Avenue facing south next to the Fire Department Hose Company building until 1916, when both buildings were moved across 6th Avenue to accommodate construction of the new Bank of Alaska (Figure 17). Both buildings now faced north. City records are unclear as to how long the Fire Department used the building, but after that date and until Martin Itjen took over the building in 1935, the exterior remained largely intact as the Hook and Ladder Company shed.Building Characteristics:Large cornice board still intact.Exterior siding is painted a darker color with lighter  trim.Front entry moves to extreme west (left).All signs removed from building.The two windows removed and replaced by large garage type double doors with windows.MARTIN ITJEN AND JEFF. SMITHS PARLOR MUSEUM1935 TO 1950

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Tax records for the city of Skagway indicate over the old Fire Department’s Hook and Ladin 1935, and opened the Jeff. Smiths [sic] PItjen attempted to recreate the building as it wlikely using historic photographs. This may ethe apostrophe in “Smith’s,” as several photogthe building during celebrations when bannesign including the apostrophe. Jack Grelsbach and operational duties of the museum followinItjen in 1942, and Lucy Itjen in 1946. George taxes on the parlor museum lot in 1945. Grelsopen until 1950, when he was forced to clohealth reasons; he died in 1952. The parlmostly closed through the 1950s and early unchanged until George Rapuzzi moved it to 

Figure 63: Interior of Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum with Martin Itjen behind the bar ca. 1935 (George and Edna Rapuzzi Collection, Rasmuson Foundation, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, print inventory # 03341).

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EXTERIORSmaller cornice board without overhanging coping.Thinner horizontal shiplap siding on front façade replaces thicker shiplap siding.Board and batten siding on sides.Body of the building is painted a dark color.Front trim is painted a light color.New façade sign installed just below the cornice board. The original sign from 1898 read “Jeff. Smith’s Parlor.” whereas Itjen’s 1935 sign read “Jeff. Smiths Parlor” and spans the width of the facade.Garage doors removed and replaced with a new single three panel door with window to the west side (right) of the building.Two over two double hung windows on east (left) side.Windows and door top aligned and share one trim board.Brick masonry chimney appears in photographs during this period.INTERIORInterior refurbished as a museum representative of the Soapy Smith era complete with bar which was purportedly the original purchased from a local source and ephemera related to the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.4141. Robert Rapuzzi, Personal Communication with Karl Gurcke, NPS Historian, Skagway, AK, 1993.

Figure 64: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, 1979Richard Frear; KLGO D-1970 2nd 6-1863)

Figure 65: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, photographer Richard Frear; KLGO D-6-1862).

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1963 – THE PRESENT6th Avenue (south side) from 1945-1963--buildiAvenue (south side) from 1963-present---building George Rapuzzi moved the Jeff. Smiths Parfrom 6th Avenue to 2nd Avenue in 1963, co1964. Following this move, Rapuzzi restored of Itjen’s museum and realigned two smalpreviously connected off center to line up portion of the museum building (Appendix 

the board and batten siding, white washed thand added a new coat of paint to the false fronside windows and door arrangements. The state represents the parlor museum as create

Figure 67: Interior of Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, ca. 1960s (Dedman Photo Shop; George and Edna Rapuzzi Collection, Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, print inventory #00079).

Figure 66: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum., north facing false front, (NPS July 2008).

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Building Characteristics:EXTERIORTwo historic structures to rear centered and re-attached.New foundation under section A-1 and A-2 (Figure 72).Removal of windows and door from the east elevation.Board and batten siding on all sides of the building except the front façade.Building painted a whitish color overall including the trim.Pipe attached to top of existing brick chimney.INTERIORAlteration of interior spaces by centering two historic structures to rear.Addition of news clippings, receipts and signs to interior walls.

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The site has recently been cleaned up and vhas been trimmed, including the rose bushes previously immediately surrounded the building are some bushes remaining on the perimeter of thwest side. The building sits on an uneven grade wire fence. An assortment of objects, mostly ru

Figure 70: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum southeast corner, bushes removed (NPS October 2009).Figure 71: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum northwest corner (NPS July 2008).

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and western half of the site, have been removed by park staff and put into storage. These items included spoked wheels, saws, metal cauldrons, pulleys, ladders, stoves, etc. The origin of these items are not yet known.

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Figure 73: Crawl Space A, section A-1 looking west at log foundation supported by cut log on concrete pier (NPS July 2008).Figure 75: Crawl Space A, section A-1 looking south toward Crawl A section A-2 (NPS July 2008).

Figure 74: Crawl Space A section A-2 cellar with log walls. Note central support post in left foreground (N

Figure 76: Crawl Space A, section A-2 cellar south waCrawl B (NPS July 2008).
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Overall, the building is in poor condition. It is sinking into grade on the west side and in the northwest corner. The east wall is bowing out and separating from the sill plate exposing the building interior and foundation to moisture. Additionally, moisture is entering the building through holes in the roof allowing mold to grow on the interior walls. To arrest further deterioration and eventual collapse of the building, the roof and foundation urgently need stabilization.A temporary roof was added in October 2009 (see back cover)FOUNDATION: The old log and concrete foundation is deteriorating and the building is listing to the west and sinking into grade. There is a large hole in the foundation on the west side of the building beneath section A-2. (Figure 108) It appears that this was a cave-in related to what was once an external access to the cellar. Adjacent to this section, the foundation consists of logs set on stacked wood and pieces of concrete in the northern end of section A-1. Beneath building sections B and 

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Figure 79: False front with painted sign, north elevation. The green glass insulator probably came from the Chilkoot Trail. (NPS July 2008).

Figure 80: North and west elevations (NPS July 200
C the foundation appears to be simple sill on grade. Here a shallow 

crawl space did not accommodate further investigation. The sinking of the building suggests the old wooden foundation is deteriorating.NORTH ELEVATION (FACES 2ND AVENUE):This is the principle elevation with a 3-panel wood door with window and two two-over-two double hung windows. The windows are presently inoperable: nailed shut and boarded over (boards were removed during assessment, Figure 77). The painted white on black “Jeff. Smiths Parlor” sign hangs just below the cornice board on the roof parapet. This elevation is clad with shiplap siding that appears to have been painted with a whitish color paint 

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Figure 82: East elevation (NPS July 2009).
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(FACES THE MARTIN ITJEN HOUSE):

This elevation is clad with the board and batten siding. There is one single light fixed wood sash window midway on this elevation in building section B. The window is boarded over with plywood from the inside. The baseboard along this elevation is missing in some sections and in others is detached from the building at a 30 to 45 degree angle allowing duff and moss to collect near the foundation line. Overgrown rose bushes, grass and a lilac bush that were growing against this elevation were recently removed. SOUTH ELEVATION (FACES ALLEYWAY):The board and batten siding on this elevation is wider than that of the east and west elevations, measuring approximately 6” 

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Figure 84: West elevation entrance and jail-like fametal bars (NPS July 2008).
wide. The gable bargeboard is partially co

metal flashing. The siding does not show of deterioration, but does show signs of hWEST ELEVATION

(FACES WORLD WAR II COMMISSARY):

On this elevation the board and batten changeto south and the only accessible doorway is in A. Adjacent to the doorway is a jail-like false fand vertical metal bars attached to main body osaw, cauldron, stove, and various other metaagainst the side of this elevation, but have recepark staff. There are signs of deterioration at in portions of section A. There is also a great near the crawl space that leads to the founda

Figure 87: Eave connection at southeast corner of roof section A (shingles) and northeast corner (rusted metal) of roof section B. Note the damaged shingles (NPS July 2008).

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Figure 88: Roof Plan from HABS drawings (NPS July 2008).

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Figure 90: North peak and gable of roof section B ridge covered with sheet metal (NPS July 2008).Figure 92: View of roof looking north toward back of false front, Haruna Madono looking over the false front. (NPS July 2008).

Figure 93: Northwest end of roof section A and bacJuly 2008).Figure 91: East slope of roof section A, masonry chichimney pipe (NPS July 2008).
ROOF:

The parlor museum has three distincis covered with cedar shingles. Corrunorthwest section of the gable where damaged allowing moisture inside the bFigure 88). There are also damaged on the southeast portion of Roof A. pitched gable and covered entirely in metal that has rusted. Roof C on thbuilding is also covered in corrugatshingled portion of the roof is in poroofs covered with corrugated metal 

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JEFF. SMITHS PARLOR MUSEUMFigure 94: Interior view of room A-1 looking north toward front door, bar at center (NPS July 2009).Figure 95: East interior wall room A-1 showing old door frame and remnants of felted cardboad that backed paper memorabilia that previously lined the wall (NPS July 2009).
INTERIOR ROOM A-1:

Room A-1 is the largest room in the building and includes the only bathroom in the parlor museum. The rectangular shaped room corresponds to the original parlor shown in historical photographs of Soapy Smith and members of his gang, 1898 (Figure 57). The walls in this room were covered in newspapers, Figure 96: Painted beadboard and porcelain sink in 

(NPS July 2008).

Figure 97: Toilet flange and doorway into batfrom Room A-1 (NPS July 2008).

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magazine pages, signs, receipts and other 

were areas of mold and water damage memorabilia, but after it was removed tof mold or deterioration to the walls begroove flooring runs parallel to the lengtgood condition. The floor shows no clea

Figure 98: Wall in southwest corner of Room A-2, notice signs of water damage to boards (NPS July 2009).

Figure 99: Southwest corner of Room A-2, with felted sheet cardboard still covering walls (NPS July 2008).

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The bathroom is overall in fair condition. Above the green painted wainscoting the wallpaper is painted white; the paint is bubbling and peeling. There is other minor cracking and peeling of the paint on the ceiling and walls. INTERIOR ROOM A-2:Room A-2 is the first room upon entering the parlor museum through the west entryway. Like Room A-1 many of the walls were clad with newspapers, pages from books, photographs and signs. The paper memorabilia has since been removed and the north, east and west walls appear to be in fair condition. However, the wood of the south wall does show some signs of water damage after removal of the paper memorabilia. The floor boards are narrower than the floor boards in Room A-1, and also appear to be in fair condition.

Figure 100: North wall of Room B and doorway from Rbeen stripped to bare wooden beams. Haruna Madono 2008).

Figure 101: Ceiling and wall in northeast corner of Rbubbling in white paper ceiling (NPS July 2009).

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Room B is directly south of Room A-2 aa doorway from Room A-2. The wood reddish linoleum-like material. The floofeels soft underfoot in many places, a cleflooring and/or foundation in these arenoticeable on the western half of the stripped of paper memorabilia in this rofair condition. The ceiling is still partially which is peeling and bubbling in som

Figure 102: Northeast part of ceiling in Room C showing signs of water damage in the white paper covering (NPS July 2009).

Figure 103: Southwest corner of Room C showing walls in fair condition and white paper covering on ceiling and portion of east wall (NPS July 2009). 

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INTERIOR ROOM C:

A small change in wall thickness distinguishes Room C from Room B. A wildlife diorama occupied most of Room C, but since has been removed. Like Room B, parts of the floor in room C are soft underfoot mainly in the southwestern corner and indicate deterioration of the flooring or foundation of the building in those areas. The walls in C appear to be in fair condition and have no obvious signs of water damage or mold. The ceiling is covered in the same white paper that 

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covers Room B (Figure 102) and haminor water damage suggesting leakiattic above. Note the gramophone ho

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Figure 105: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, west elevation with section labels. This image is not drawn to scale.

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ATTIC: Overall the attic is in fair condition. The ridge board, skip sheathing and collar ties are charred in the north end of section B. There is loose wood shaving insulation, but the boards on the roof and floor show only limited signs of water damage and appear to be in fair condition. Although not clearly visible there are holes in the roof and attic flooring, evidence of which can be seen in the water damage to the walls and ceiling throughout the building.After several alterations and additions, the Jeff Smiths Parlor Museum building measures 12’6” x 83’. The existing museum consists of three different buildings. The oldest section, believed to be the building that housed Jefferson Randolph Smith’s bar, includes the northernmost portion of the building (A-1 and A-2). The long, narrow building is largely wood plank or boxed construction and covered by medium pitched individual gable roofs. The northern- most roof is clad with cedar shingles and corrugated metal while the rear two roofs are only corrugated 

Figure 106: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, north an2008).

Figure 107: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building, south an2009).

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metal. A deteriorating masonry chimthe ridge near the center of the buildithe northern-most roof (Figure 91). Bis common to all exterior sides of principle north façade which is horizThe main entrance to the museum is on 2nd Avenue. There is also an entrance There are three windows in the building to the front door and one small fixed wind

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Figure 109: Log foundation along east wall of section A-1 (

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Site:The Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum is located in downtown Skagway, Alaska, within the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. Situated in the middle of Lot 2, on Block 37, the parlor museum is on the south side of 2nd Avenue, west of Broadway Street. The White Pass and Yukon Route railroad (WP & YR) tracks run behind the parlor museum to the south. To the east is the Martin Itjen house, and to the west of the parlor museum is the World War II Commissary building. Set back ten feet from the street, the museum property is enclosed by a wire fence with large grassy areas immediately surrounding the building on the east and west sides. There were a variety of objects such as rusting wheels, pulleys, a cast iron stove, trash cans, and a wooden ladder on the site, especially in the area to the west of the building. Many of the artifacts have been removed. Building:

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Figure 112: West facade with vertical board and batten siding (NPS July 2008).

For the purpose of this report, the sectibe referred to as sections A, B and C (Figbuilding is rectangular in plan, measurone-story, wood building. The roof is oris clad with cedar shingles and galvaniThe interior plan is organized irooms (A-1, A-2, B and C) anRoom A-1 referred to as section Foundation:The single story structure has at least thtypes associated with different sections foundation beneath A-1 is visible froaccessible by a trap door in the floor of the 

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the foundation the building sill rests on two logs running parallel to the length of the building. These logs rest on stacked piers that consist of log cuts, stacked on stone and chunks of concrete. Under section A-2 is the second foundation type which is deeper than the foundation beneath A-1. Here the building sits on logs resting atop two sides of the concrete walls. A 5’2” tall 1’1/2” diameter post supports the floor joists in the center of the cellar. There is a large opening and cave-in in part of the west wall exposing the west side of this deeper foundation to the outside.The third foundation under sections B and C appears to be simple sill on grade and is not accessible from the cement walled foundation under A-2 or through the crawl space in A-1. The entire building is sinking noticeably toward the northwest corner and along the west foundation.Walls:The 7’2” high walls are largely wood plank or boxed 

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many gold rush era buildings in Sconstruction was quick and required and batten siding covers the east, south museum. The batten widths on the sothan those on the east and west elevnorth false-fronted façade consists siding. All of the walls show signs of wwood and chipping/flaking white oWindows and Doors: Only two doors and three windows prothe museum. The main doorway on t

Figure 114: Windows and main doorway on north elevation (NPS July 2008).

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directly into the original parlor/bar section of the building that dates to 1898. This doorway is framed with painted trim boards on the interior and exterior. The wooden door is three paneled on the bottom half and has a fixed window on top that is presently covered with plywood. Three strap hinges connect the door to what appears to be a rod fixed in the door frame. Settling has caused large gaps between the door and the top of the door frame.The second doorway is a single wide doorway on the west elevation and consists of an exterior and interior door. The external batten door is constructed of five wood planks held together by diagonal, top and bottom braces. The internal door 

Figure 116: Metal gable roof of section B and C southwest 

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Figure 118: Attic A-1 rafters at ridge line (NPS July 2008).

Figure 119: Attic A-1 rafters and skip sheathing (NPS July 2008). Figure 120: Attic A-1 rafters ends at top plat

opens into Room A-2 and is a simple foThe most prominent window of the mseparate two-over-two light double hunadjacent to the front door. These hung windows measure 2’4” x 4’. Alight, these windows are also presently The sashes are nailed shut on the insi

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The only other window in the building is located on the east elevation of section B. This 2’2” x 1’7” single light fixed wood sash window is covered with plywood on the inside. Externally the window is simply trimmed in wood with three horizontal iron bars protecting the panes.Roof:The gable roof has three distinct sections differentiated by 

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is section B, where the pitch is 11:12. This section is covered entirely in corrugated and sheet metal. Here the gable faces extend above the ridges of roof sections A and B, and are faced with sheet metal. At the southern end of the building, roof section C has a pitch of 8:12 and is also clad in corrugated metal.Interior Roofing:The building has four different attic spaces despite only having three roof sections, roof section A covers two attic spaces. In attic A-1 and A-2 the rafters meet end to end at the ridge, with 

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and skip sheathing. The north partition wall consists of horizontal planks and separates this attic from attic A-2. To the south a similar partition wall separates attic B and C, but there is a rectangular wall opening to access attic C. On the north end of this attic A near the peak, the ridge board, rafters and skip sheathing show charring from an unknown fire.Similar to attics A-1 and A-2, the construction of attic C consists of rafters that connect end to end at the ridge. Unique to attic C is the cathedral ceiling just below the collar ties. This attic/ceiling is above Room C where the life size animal diorama was on display. Floors:There are three distinct sections of the parlor museum floor. 

Figure 126: Sub-flooring in A-1 with 3 3/4” x 3/4” bo

Figure 127: Sub-flooring in small section of A-1 with boards (NPS July 2009). 

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The floor in A-1 is 3/4” x 5 3/8” tongu

fir wood flooring running lengthwise wis a flush mounted trap door with accethe center of the room. The flooring in A-2 is 3/4” x 3 3/8Douglas-fir and also runs lengthwise wof the flooring in both A-1 and A-2 appa reddish brown color. There is a secodoor with access to the foundation in tA-2.The flooring in B and C is covered by similar red brown color to the rest of th

Figure 128: West wall of A-1 with historic newspapers and other paper memorabilia (NPS July 2008).

Figure 129: Same west wall of A-1 after museum curators stripped wall (NPS July 2009).

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Sub-Flooring:

The building has two separate sections of sub-flooring, with a third small sub-section in part of A-1. Most of the sub-flooring in A-1 is composed of 3/4” x 3 3/4” boards running the width of the building. This section runs 18’ up to a large cross beam. After the cross beam a small sub-section begins with newer 5” boards, that are spaced approximately 1” apart. After a few feet the rest of the A-1 sub-flooring is comprised of 1” x 12” boards. The sub-flooring in A-2, B and presumably C is 1” x 12” 

Figure 130: Southwest corner of A-1 with historic newspapmemorabilia (NPS July 2008). 

Figure 131: Same corner of A-1 after museum curatorial stafelted sheet cardboard remains on walls (NPS July 2009).

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running the width of the building. The 

B are accessible and their sub-flooring is inaccessible the way the building currWall Coverings: All the sections of the museum had at lwallpaper, old newspapers or paper mthe walls in varying degrees. Park service and saved samples of the historic artifA-1 there were indications that wallpapthat was later covered by historic newsmemorabilia. There was also indicatiothat extended across the ceiling.Several layers of wallpaper were removwere covered by historic newspapers, and the like. The north wall of A-2 

Figure 132: Doorway connecting A-1 and A-2, view from A-2 looking north (NPS July 2008).

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substantially more wallpaper than either the east or west wall.

In section B two, possibly three, layers of wallpaper were removed from the east and west walls. Although historic newspapers did not line the wall as in A, small newspaper clippings were 

Figure 133: Boarded up double doors on south wall of C that were once an exit from the building (NPS July 2009).

Figures 134 and 135: On the left is the door on the north wthe buildings when they were connected off-center on the souAppendix B. On the right is the doorway that currently conphotograph was taken from B looking north back into A. Thone another on the north wall of B (NPS July 2009).

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removed from a portion of the west wall.

Park staff only removed wallpaper from the south wall of C. Two different sections each two layers thick were removed from the far south wall, and there was some indication that there was wallpaper on parts of the ceiling.Interior Access:There are two interior doorways in the building that connect A-1, A-2 and the rest of the building. Neither of the interior doorways have doors, but are just door frames linking the rooms. There is evidence of older doors that have been boarded up and are no longer in use. The first doorway is in the southeast corner of A-1 about one foot away 

Figure 136: Bar in Room A-1, view to the north Figure 137: Desktop and shelf in A-1, view to the 

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from the east wall. The doorway has a painted frame. Along the 

east wall there is evidence of an old door frame that may have been an exit to the outside at one point.There is a second doorway in the southeast corner of A-2 leading to B and C. Next to this is evidence of a historic door that likely linked B and C to the rest of the building when they were connected offset prior to the 1963-1964 move from 6th Avenue to the building’s current location on the south side of 2nd Avenue (Appendix B).On the south wall of C there are double doors with hinges on the outer frame that once led to the outside and are likely how the moose and wildlife diorama was originally brought into the parlor museum.

Figure 138: Room A-2 with cast iron stove and iron s

Figure 139: Rooms B and C with bull moose with loc2009).

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Furnishings:

Very little furniture remains in the museum after park staff removed much of it and placed it in storage. In Room A-1 there is a long bar similar to the one from historical photos from Soapy Smith’s era; however, it is unlikely that it is the actual 1898 bar from Soapy’s saloon. There is also a wooden desktop mounted in the southwest corner of this room next to the bathroom entrance. The only other piece of 

Figure 140: Sink and plumbing in bathroom (NPFigure 141: Knob and tube electric wiring in norRoom A-1 (NPS July 2008).

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furniture in the room is a free standing painted wood shelf in 

the southeast corner of the room in front of the doorway to Room A-2.A cast iron stove is the only historic furniture left in Room A-2.Two bull moose with locked antlers sit in the middle of Rooms B and C. They are left over from the wildlife diorama that dates to when Martin Itjen operated the museum. Itjen purchased the skeletons of these two bull moose that died of starvation after locking their antlers. He then stretched other moose hides around the skeletons restoring the moose to a more lifelike representation. The animals were preserved with arsenic, commonly used by taxidermists at that time, but no longer. They are now wrapped in plastic and run lengthwise down the center of the rear two rooms. There are wooden pallets and samples of the historic newspapers that once lined the walls remaining in Room B. As of 2009 the moose have been removed by park 

staff and are now in storage.Mechanical and Electrical:The mechanical systems in the museum repthat was available when this building was in to the building is currently not connected, knob and tube wiring in the attic and more cflorescent and incandescent lighting in all of thbathroom (Room Bb), is a corner sink and there is no toilet. There is no running wateThe Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum is a contribSkagway and White Pass District National HKlondike Gold Rush National Historical Park 

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if not treated. After years of neglect, multiple moves, and remodels 

the building is deteriorated and the structural integrity compromised. Treatment Alternatives:1. No Treatment:Without treatment at this time the building will continue to deteriorate resulting in the loss of a significant contributing resource. The failing condition of the foundation could lead to collapse or loss of a section of the building.This treatment is not recommended.

2. Exterior Preservation Treatment:This treatment alternative would include rand preserving the exterior of the buildingwould continue but the interior of the accessible to the public. Visitors woulParlor Museum from the boardwalk This treatment alternative would requir

• A new concrete foundation.• Structural upgrades to the build

accommodate load bearing mem

• Painting and weatherizing the b• Cedar shingle and corrugated m

improvements.

• Site improvements.

This treatment is not recommended.

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3. Adaptive Reuse:

This treatment alternative would alter the building’s exterior and interior to accommodate an alternate function. Like many of the historic buildings in Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, the parlor museum could be adapted for a retail business rather than a museum. Adapting the parlor museum to accommodate a retail business could significantly alter the building interior and destroy extant historic fabric as well as eliminating a significant representative of Skagway’s history.This treatment alternative would require:

• A new concrete foundation.• Structural upgrades to the building envelope to 

accommodate load bearing members.

• Cedar shingle and corrugated metal roofi ng 

improvements.

• Site improvements.• Installation of a new mechanical and electrical system.• Removal of the wildlife diorama in Room C.• Painting and weatherizing the building exterior. 

This treatment is not recommended.4. Rehabilitation:This treatment alternative would rehabilitate tmuseum reminiscent of the eras of Martin Itjebut with modern museum amenities. Followbuilding would retain its historic use as a publthe story of “Soapy” Smith, Skagway, Itjen athe historic building fabric from these eras rewell documented in photographs, newspapRehabilitation of the building as the Jeff. Smiths the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical venue to exhibit artifacts and objects associated the early years of Skagway. Given the potential building and the breadth of the Rapuzzi Collethe parlor museum would provide ample space items from this collection. In addition, Itjen’s s

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This is the recommended treatment.

PREFERRED TREATMENTTreatment alternative number 4, Rehabitreatment for the Jeff. Smiths Parlor Musepreserve the building as a museum that allexhibit space for the Rapuzzi Collecticurated by the Klondike Gold Rush NEvaluation of Effect:The following determination of the etreatments is made in accordance witthe Advisory Council on Historic Pr“Protection of Historic and Cultural 

A federal, federally assisted, or undertaking shall be considered to a National Register property eligin the National Register (districtstructures, and objects, including t

Car could be exhibited on site next to the building. Rehabilitation of this building would protect a valuable resource to the history of Skagway and the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.This treatment alternative would require:

• A new concrete foundation.• Structural upgrades to the building envelope to accommodate 

load bearing members.

• Cedar shingle and corrugated metal roofi ng improvements.• Site improvements.• Installation of a new mechanical and electrical system to 

accommodate environmental systems appropriate to maintain curatorial objects.

• Preservation or replacement of news clippings, articles, 

photographs and other paper ephemera on the interior walls.

• Painting and weatherizing the building exterior. • Exhibit space.• Rehabilitation of appropriate historic furniture, exhibits and 

artifacts from the Itjen and Rapuzzi eras. For examples, the Soapy Smith manikin and the bar.

• Building a structure to exhibit the Itjen streetcar.

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Recommended treatments that 

as having an overall benefic

• No adverse aff ects.

Adverse Effect:Recommended treatments that are having an adverse effect on the quthe structure for inclusion in the NaNo adverse effect is treatments recommended in Archaeological Effect:During the proposed rehabilitation per NPS-Management Guidelines, Chapter 7: ManLandscapes, archaeological and structural reand preserved in place. If such resources 

any condition of the undertaking causes or may cause any change, benefi cial or adverse, in the quality of the historical, architectural, archeological, or cultural character that qualifi es the property under the National Register Criteria.

Determination of EffectThe proposed rehabilitation will not alter or compromise the historic integrity of the building and will comply with section 106 review. Any loss of original material will be replaced in kind.No Effect:Recommended treatments having no effect on the qualities that qualify the structure for inclusion in the National Register are:

• No eff ect.• No adverse eff ect.

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mitigation measures are undertaken including recovery, curation, and 

documentation. Prior to the proposed rehabilitation, there will be consultation with an archaeologist and archaeology compliance work.TREATMENT PLANTask 1: Preparation of the Building for Work Under Task 2The purpose of this task will be to prepare the building for work accomplished under Task 2, which will include substantial structural repairs and the construction of a new foundation. Task 1 includes the removal of all salvageable and historical items for reuse, reinstallation and/or curation as part of the building restoration and raising the entire building to access the crawl space for the new foundation. All environmental concerns such as lead, mold and other potential hazardous materials documented in the September 2004 Hart Crowser, Inc Environmental Site Assessment report will be abated. All work under Task 1 will be accomplished by Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park maintenance crews and archaeologists.

Work under Task 1 will include:

• Site tasks include the removal a

in and around the building prioexcavation. Archaeologists will 

• Raise entire building to provide 

foundation and for archeologicaconducted under the foundatio

• Paint analysis of both interior a

building to determine the origin

• Removal of historic windows an

rehabilitation and reinstallation

• Archeological compliance work

• Abatement of lead paint on exte

well as on interior walls.

• Stabilize walls to prevent damag

signs, receipts, and other paper interior walls. In some cases, thbe removed and/or repaired andfor reinstallation following treattask is completed.

• Water for fi re suppression will b

Crawl Space

• Repair and/or replace in kind ar

accessible crawl spaces, particul

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• Repair and/or replace in kind exterior siding to 

provide access to structure for improvements.

Room A-1

• Repair and/or replace in kind windows and door 

for treatment and reinstallation following Task 2. (Treatment of the window may include repair, reglazing, or replacing missing elements in kind. It may also include the removal or encasement of lead paint.) 

• Repair and/or replace in kind fl ooring where necessary 

to access crawl space and foundation and as required to reinforce fl oor structure.

• Repair and/or replace in kind all news clippings, signs, 

receipts and paper documents on walls. 

• Remove historical wood bar and other artifacts still 

present.

• Abate lead paint, mold, dust and vermin droppings.

Room A-2

• Repair and/or replace in kind doors for rehabilitation 

and reinstallation following Task 2.

• Repair and/or replace in kind fl ooring where necessary 

to access crawl space and foundation and as required to reinforce fl oor structure.

• Stabilize masonry fl ue in anticipation of building shift 

associated with the installation of a new 

• Repair and/or replace in kind all news c

receipts and paper documents on walls. 

• Remove artifacts still present for curatio• Abate lead paint, mold, dust and vermi

Room B

• Repair and/or replace in kind window f

reinstallation following Task 2.

• Repair and/or replace in kind fl ooring w

access crawl space and foundation and fl oor structure.

• Remove large panes of glass and other a• Inspect electrical systems.• Abate lead paint, mold, dust and vermi

Room C

• Repair and/or replace in kind the wildl

arsenic present in these preserved anim

• Repair and/or replace in kind fl ooring w

access crawl space and foundation and 

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fl oor structure.

• Inspect electrical system.• Abate lead paint, mold, dust and vermin droppings.

Bathroom

• Inspect plumbing and electrical systems to ensure no items are 

connected.

Attic

• Repair and/or replace in kind masonry chimney fl ue in attic 

section A-2.

• Inspect electrical system.• Abate mold, dust and vermin droppings.

Task 2: Construct New Foundation, Sand Insulate Exterior Walls and RepaiTask 1 will be completed prior to Task will include construction of a new pourunder the perimeter of the building. Thstructural upgrades, insulation of exteriograde across the site. All archaeological be completed prior to any excavation aand an archeologist should be present duWork under Task 2 will include:

• Construct a new continuous co

concrete stem wall foundation. 

• Inspect and repair and/or replac

wall framing.

• Insulate exterior walls.• Re-wire electrical system and up

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• Repair and/or replace in kind roof structure.

• Repair and/or replace in kind the overall structure to 

return it to a structurally sound condition.

• Repaint the building in colors determined by the paint 

analysis.

Crawl Space

• Remove earth in sections A through C to maintain 36” 

minimum clearance throughout crawl space.

• Construct a continuous concrete footing and concrete 

stem wall foundation.

Room A-1, A-2, B, C and Bathroom

• Plumb and level door jambs and window openings.• Realign internal and external walls – removing 2”x4” 

stud wall stabilizers in Room A-1.

• Insulate and structurally reinforce exterior walls.• Introduce electrical and mechanical systems as 

necessary within exterior and interior walls and ceilings.

Attic

• Reinforce attic structure per engineer’s • Replace loose insulation material.

Roof

• Repair and/or replace in kind cedar roo

corrugated metal roofi ng.

Task 3: Exterior RestorationTasks 1 and 2 will be completed before Task 3. include the rehabilitation of the exterior of the appearance that is consistent with building chMartin Itjen and George Rapuzzi era of 1935 to Work under Task 3 will include:

• Rehabilitation and repair and/or replac

siding and trim that was removed durin

• Reinstallation of rehabilitated doors and 

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Figure 142: Crawl Space and Roof Plan drawings from HABS . Diagrams are not to scale (NPS 2008).

• Paint exterior of building with c

determined by paint analysis fro

• Restore surrounding site by plan

vegetation consistent with the pprogram and based on historica

• Modify exterior doorways per a

Task 4: Interior Restoration Tasks 3 and 4 may take place concurrenwill include the rehabilitation of the intParlor Museum consistent with the hmuseum during the eras of Martin ItjeWork under Task 4 will be done in cthe Klondike Gold Rush National Work under Task 4 will include:

• Restoration, replacement and/o

fl ooring and trim.

• Restoration, replacement and/o

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clippings, signs, receipts and other paper ephemera on interior walls.

• Rehabilitation of interior room furnishings per 

photographic documentation.

• Modify doorways per accessibility standards.

Room A-1, A-2 and B

• Restore and/or replace in kind, and/or reinstall the 

news clippings, signs, receipts and paper documents on walls.

• Restore and/or replace in kind and/or reinstall 

fl ooring and trim removed during Task 1.

• Reinstall the wood bar and shelf behind the bar in 

room A-1.

• Reinstall artifacts consistent with photographic 

documentation and agreed upon exhibit design, for example, the bar and Soapy manikin.

• Paint walls and fl oor as necessary per paint analysis 

and historical photographs.

• Reconcile lighting fi xtures per exhibit design and 

based on historical photographs.

• Install museum exhibits and artifacts per agreed upon 

program.

Figure 143: Window plans from HABS. Drawing not t

Figure 144: Wall plans from HABS. Drawings not to sca

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Figure 145: Sectional HABS drawing, view of south end of the building on the west elevation (NPS July 2008).

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Figure 146: Sectional HABS drawing, view of north end of the building west elevation (NPS July 2008).

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Figure 147: North and South elevation HABS drawings, showing uneven grade (NPS July 2008).

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Room A-1, A-2 and B

• Repair and/or replace in kind th

signs, receipts and paper docum

• Reinstall and/or replace in kind 

shelf behind the bar in room A-

• Reinstall and/or replace in kind 

with photographic documentatexhibit design.

• Install museum exhibits and art

program.

Room C

• Restore, and/or replace in kind • Repair and/or replace in kind p

other artifacts.

• Reconcile lighting fi xtures per e

based on historical photographs

Room C

• Restore, replace or reinstall wildlife diorama.• Restore, replace and/or reinstall fl ooring and trim 

removed during Task 1.

• Reinstall pictures, mirror and other artifacts.• Reconcile lighting fi xtures per exhibit design and based 

on historical photographs.

• Paint walls and fl oors as necessary per paint analysis 

and historical photos.

Bathroom

• Paint walls and fl oor as necessary per paint analysis and 

based on historical photographs.

Task 5: Installation of Museum ExhibitsTask 5 will take place following the interior restoration completed in Task 4 and will likely be carried out by a contractor in consultation with park staff .Work Under Task 5 Will Include:

• Repair and/or replace in kind interior room 

furnishings.

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2007 Collection Features Klondike Gold Rush, Skagway History. April 26.Allen, Lois Hudson1940 “He Takes ‘Em for a Ride.” The Alaskan Sportsman. September, p. 14-27.Anchorage Daily Times1935 “Skagwayan Sees May West and Is Ready to Die,” March. 30, 1935, p. 4, col. 1-2.Bearss, Edwin C. 1970 Proposed Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Historic Resource Study. Washington, DC: National Park 

Berton, Pierre1958 Klondike Fever: Th e Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush, Basic Books: New York, 1958, p. 346-347. 

Blee, Catherine, Robert Spude and Paul Cloyd 1983 Historic Structure Reports for Ten Buildings. Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. Denver: National PClifford, Howard 1975 The Skagway Story. Alaska Northwest Publishing Company: Anchorage, AK. Cunningham, Suzanne M. and Bruce A. Ream 2004. Phase I Pre-Acquisition Environmental Site Assessment: Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum and The Commissary, Sk

Prepared for National Park Service, Contract No. C9924000022, Order No. T9917040024 (Task 55). Hart Seattle, WA, September 2004.

Daily Alaskan (Skagway, Alaska)1898 Advertisement: Jeff. Smith’s Parlors. July 2, Vol. 1, No. 130, p. 2, col. 4.

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333 Willoughby Avenue, P. O. Box 110571, Juneau, AK 99811-0571; Phone: (907) 465-2925, Fax: (907) 4

eed.state.ak.us

British Columbia Archives, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, BC, V8W 9W2, CANADA; Phone: (250) 387-1in Canada 1-800-663-7867, Fax: (250) 387-2072, Email: access@www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca, URL: http://w

bc.ca Digital photos online: http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-38D7EF4/bsearch/VisualRecords

Dedman’s Photo Shop, 331 Broadway, P. O. Box 417, Skagway, AK 99840-0417; Phone: (907) 983-2353, FEmail: dedmanfoto@aptalaska.net.

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The Denver Public Library, Western History / Genealogy Department, 10 West Fourteenth Avenue Parkway, Denv

2731; Phone: (720) 865-1821, Photo Sales Department Phone (720) 865-1818, Fax: (720) 865-1880, Email: photo

denver-lib.co.us or photosales@denver.lib.co.us, URL: http://www.denver.lib.co.us

Library and Archives Canada (aka National or Public Archives of Canada), Specialized Media Consultation Unit, 39Street, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0N3, CANADA; General Information, Toll Free (Canada and US) Phone: 1-866-578-777Services Phone: (613) 992-3884, Fax: (613) 995-6274, URL: http://www.archives.caThe Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Room LM 337, Madison Bldg., 101 Independence Aven

Washington, DC 20540-4730; Phone: (202) 707-6394, Fax: (202) 707-6647, URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/

National Park Service, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (KLGO), Second & Broadway, P. O. Box 517, 99840-0517; Phone: (907) 983-2921 (General), (907) 983-9214 (Historian), Fax: (907) 983-9249, Email: karl_gu

(Historian)University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division, P. O. Box 352900, Seattle, WA 98195-2900; Pho543-1929, Fax: (206) 543-1931, Email: speccoll@u.washington.edu

Yukon Archives, 400 College Drive, P. O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 2C6, CANADA; Phone: (867) 667-532within Yukon 1-800-661-0408 local 5321, Fax: (867) 393-6253, Email: yukon.archives@gov.yk.ca, URL: http://ww

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“G.L. Rickard.”

14, 15, 16. White paper panels.17. Grey paper panel.18. The Skagway Weekly Budget, Sk1900. Front page.19. Klondike Musher. Page 4. AprCrashes Studio Gates.”20. The Klondike News. Page 16.21. The Skaguay News. Feb. 25, 18ing Laws.”22. The Skaguay News. Feb. 25, 1823. Alaska Daily Guide. Skagway, A

Front Page.24. The Skagway News. Skagway, AFront Page. 25. Alaska Traveler’s Guide. Skagw1901. Front Page.26. Sunday Alaskan. Skagway, AlasFront Page.27. Tan painted baseboard.28. Tan paper panel.29. “The ‘Soapy’ Smith Tragedy,” (ten in 1907) Page 1.30. “ “ “ “ “ “ Page 431. “ “ “ “ “ “ Page 232. “ “ “ “ “ “ Page 5 

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Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum Interior Wall Finishes Section A-1East Wall Drawn by Grant Crosby, Eileen Clancy, Debbie Sanders 8/7/2008Key by Deb Boettcher 8/11/2008

1. The Klondike News. Page 5. B/W photo: Eldorado, 

Lamb, Scouse & Co.

2. The Klondike News. Page 23. “Alexander Bielenberg,” 

“Willis McKinnes”, “Jack Donovan.”

3. The Klondike News. Page 8. “Peter A. McDonald.”4. The Klondike News. Page 22. “The Yukon Appetite.” 

“All the Creeks.” 

5. White painted felt paper panel.6. White painted felt paper panel.7. The Klondike News. Vol.. 1 Dawson, N.W.T., April 

1st, 1898, No. 1, Front page. 

8. The Klondike News. Page 16. “Schemes,” “Arizona 

Charley.”

9. White painted felt paper panel.10. The Klondike News. Page 4. “Thorpe Bros. & Stewart.”11. The Klondike News. Page 13. “Famine in Klondike.”

12. Unknown Newspaper: “Eldorado.” Articles: “Antone 

F. Standard, Miss Violet Raymond Bride elect to Millions.”

13. The Klondike News. Page 12. “Alphonse Lapierre,” 

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47. “ “ “

48. “ “ “49. Tag: “Bed Pan.”50. Small sign: Member Skagway Trail of  of Commerce, 1969, Soapy Smith Mus51. Pencil writing: “No 6.”52. Pencil writing: “Hospital.”53. Card: Castle Kern Swiss Chalet.

33. “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ Page 3 34. “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ Page 635. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Thursday May 24, 1934.  Page 8. 36. The Whitehorse Star. Whitehorse, Yukon. June 24,  1963. “Soapy Smith’s Old  Parlor Gets New Lease on Life.”37. Grey paper panel38. The Klondike News. Page 8. “Peter McDonald.”39. The Klondike News. Page 27. “The Five Finger Coal 

Company.”

40. The Klondike News. Page 29. “Thomas Young,” 

“Dan McVicker,” “Tom Moore,” “James W. Morrison.” 

41. The Klondike News (no title). “Something New in 

Vegetables,” “New Laws for Alaska,” “How Alaska got her Gold.”

42. The Klondike News. Page 12. “Alphonse Lapierre,” 

“G.L. Rickard,” “John R. Dodson,” “R.B. Wood.”

43. The Klondike News. Page 10. “Web. Lumpkins, John 

Hartwell, and Thos. Ashby.”

44. The Klondike News. Page 4. “Thorpe Bros. &  Stewart”, “Miss Belinda,” “Mulrooney,” “John  Erickson,” “Eldorado No 46.”45. The Klondike News (no title). “Alexander Bieienberg,”  “Willis McKinnes,” “Jack Donovan.”46. Brown Paper Panel.

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Interior Wall FinishesSection A-1South wall, West “Bathroom” wallDrawn by Eileen Clancy, Debbie Sanders 8/7/2008Key by Deb Boettcher 8/11/20081. Brown paper. 2. Grey paper. 3. Brown paper (overlaps 4.).4. Brown paper.5. Newspaper. “...EENTH.”6. Newspaper (overlaps 5.). “our.../C.W.As,” “Tea/Blue 

Ribbon,” “H.D. Kirmse.”

7. Newspaper edge with “cross” pattern (above), grey 

paper (below).

8. Newspaper. “The [Daily Alaskan] Skagway, Alaska. 

December 31, 1917. “Japan watching Russia – May Invade Siberia.”

9. Paper poster: “Mrs. H.E. Russell, Miss. L.A. Burke/ 

Hotel Moore/ only First-class Hotel in Skaguay/...corner of State St. and 5th Avenue.”

10. Grey felt-paper panel with 2 nuts and bolts projecting.11. Brown paper panel.12. Paper poster: “Bay View House/...Martin Itjen, Proprietor/Between Approach to Moore’s Wharf and W.P. 

& Y.Ry. Depot/ Telephone 84/Skagway.”

13. Newspaper. Ad: “The Gateway route of White Pass 

& Yukon Route/Winter Stage Sington Fruit Store/T. Rapuzzi PGeneral Electric Co./ E.T. McB

14. [Skagway Daily Alaskan]. Alaska

Front page (wraps around).

15. [Skagway Daily Alaskan]. New 

1918. Ad: “Pioneers of Alaska 

16. Newspaper (untitled). Ads: “T

Yukon Route,” “The Pullen HoHeadquarters for Atlin Stage linCaribou Hotel,” “Alaska TransfeRestaurant.”

17. Skagway Daily Alaskan New Yea

1918. Page 5.

18. Brown paper panel.19. Grey Felt paper.20. “ “ “21. “ “ “

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Interior wall finishes Section A-1SW corner wallDrawn by Tara Ikenouye 8/8/2008Key by Deb Boettcher 8/8/20081. The Klondike News. Page 24. “Messrs. Gauvin Bros. 

and Pichon.”

2. The Klondike News. Page 6. “Emil Gay,” “George 

Lamarre,” “Dr. P.J. Benoit LeBlanc.”

3. The Klondike News. Page 36. “Quartz Mining in the 

Klondike.”

4. The Klondike News. Page 13 (wrap-around). “Famine in the Klondike,” “The Klondike Presbyterian 

Church.”

5. The Daily Alaskan. Skagway, Alaska. Monday, September 12, 1904. Front page. 5a. Joke: “Do you 

know how to make a peach cordial?/ Sure, just give her a couple of drinks.”

6. Newspaper (publication name was unclear). Article: 

“Headless Bank Robber of Skagway,” by W.D. MacBride. Page 22

7. Newspaper (publication name was unclear). Article: 

“Headless Bank Robber of Skagway,” cont. Page 23.

8. Newspaper (publication name was unclear). Article: 

“Headless Bank Robber of Skagway.” Page 68. 8a. Blank withdrawal form from The Canadian Bank of Commerce 190_.

9. The Daily Alaskan. Skagway, Alaska. J

Front Page.

10. Newspaper The Daily Alaskan). “City F

port for the Year.” Ads: “Martin ConwNorth Hotel,” “Northwest Light & Powaround).

11. Dawson Weekly News. October 25, 19012. The Daily Alaskan. Skagway. Clipping

Alaska.”

13. Newspaper article: “Equal Time,” by D14. Poster: “What Prohibition has done in 

Washington and Oregon.”

15. The Klondike News. Page 11. “James M

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Interior Wall FinishesSection A-1West Wall Drawn by H. Madono 8/7/2008Key by Debbie Sanders 8/8/2008, Deb Boettcher 8/11/20081. The Klondike News. Page 13. “As it Was/ How to 

Prospect/As it Will Be.”

2. The Klondike News. Page 34. “Whether to Go/ How 

to Go.”

3. Map: Dawson City Area 1898.4. The Daily Alaskan. April 5, 1900. “Goods Right, 

Prices Right.”

5. The Daily Alaskan. April 5, 1900. Cover. “No. 10. 

H.B.”

6. The Daily Alaskan. Jan. 24, 1901. “I Told you So/ 

Benny Moore Has Got it.”

7. Clipping: “Matrimonial Troubles of Swiftwater Bill.”8. Clipping: “The Bonds of Skagway.”9. Clipping: “Wickersham Seeks Fame.”10. Clipping: Daily News. Feb. 27, 1935. “Mae West 

Sourdough Nuggets.”

11. The Daily Alaskan. April 6, 1900.12. Dawson Restaurant Bill of Fare 12a. Clipping: 

“Cigarettes Invented by Accident.”

13. Clipping: “Smith: “What are you cutting...” 14. Clipping: “Dinner to honor Skagway Pioneer.” 15. The Daily Alaskan. April 6, 1900. Front page. “Banquet to Mr.. Price.” In ink: “N

16. Cartoon Clipping “Marrying th17. The Daily Alaskan. Oct. 1, 189

Menu.” In ink: “No 13 AB.” 18. Clipping: “Bookman’s Travels.” 19. Clipping: “In his own words...

20. Clipping: “That’s That.” 21. Third Annual Edition daily Ala

“Queen of the Alaskan Fleet.” 22. Daily Alaskan (no date). “Why F.H. Clayson & Co.” 23. The Daily Alaskan. Oct. 26, 19No Mistake.” 24. Third Annual Edition, Daily AlCity in Alaska to Incorporate.” kan. Feb. 26, 1902. “The ValuBodies.” 26. Clipping: “Memories of Brick 

27. (No title or date). “Our Specia

“Aug. 31 Skagway Weather.” 2

Aug. 31, 1904. Cover. “The G

28. Clipping: “Ships & Captaine o29. Coasting Manifest (very faded)30. (blank) Certificate No. 789 Fo31. (blank) Share Certificate for “T

Company.” “...shares $1.00 ea

32. Historical sketch. Page 13. “As 

ers...” 33. Daily time Sheet. Skagway & Y

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& Improvement Co.

34. Clipping: “Portland House/Pullen House.”35. The Daily Alaskan. “Beautiful Skagway,” “Canadian 

Bank of Commerce.”

36. [The Daily Alaskan]. “Ladies Walking Hats,” “Merry 

Widows.”

37. The Daily Alaskan. May 5, 1908. Cover. “Cale on 

Campaign.”

38. Seattle Post Intelligencer. Page 10. Clipping: “When 

the P.I. Scooped the Arctic.”

39. The Klondike News. “No 37 Bonanza Above,” “Duncan D. Stewart.”40. The Klondike News. “Thomas Young,” “Dan McVicker,” “Tom Moore.”41. Clipping: The Seattle Daily Times. July 12, 1907. 

Top of cover.

42. Newspaper – possibly The Seattle Daily Times. “The 

Fair,” “Klondike Supplies,” Apples/Oranges.”

43. Clipping: “Gold Trail Memories Revived.”44. Clipping: “Nome Saloon 1900.”45. Clipping: “Three Times and Out.”46. Clipping: “Queens Birthday Celebration – Dawson.”47. Clipping: “Skagway Brewing Comp.y.”48. (No title or date). “We are Headquarters for.../Begins Work.”49. Clipping: “First & only Hanging (sic) in Valdez 

Camp...”

50. Clipping: “Holy Cross One of Alaska’s Most Modern 

Centers.”

51. Clipping: “They Say.”52. Clipping: “No. 1 Little Creek.” 52a.C

tinuation of 52.

53. The Daily Alaskan. June 13, 1905. Co

Making Trouble.”

54. Clipping: “Inside Story of Purchase of 

closed.”

55. Clipping: continuation of 54.56. Clipping: “Picture Proves of Much Int57. Clipping: “Napoleon’s ‘Hot’ Love Lett58. Clipping: “$1,000 gold Nugget Found 59. Clipping: “All Very True.”60. Clipping: “An Englishman Had...” 6

“The young man...” 60b.Clipping: “Lgraphs.”

61. The Klondike News. “Hunker: Andrew 

Golden Hunker.”

62. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. March 1

9. “Criminals Driven Out.”

63. Clipping: Sourdough. “Murder on the 

James Little.

64. Clipping: “ “ “ “ 

from last week).

65. Clipping: “ “ “ “ 

( “ “ “ “ ).

66. Clipping: “Sourdough Memories – Do

tive to Bodies...”

67. Clipping: “Russian Massacre by Copp

ans Recalled.”

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68. Clipping: “Don’t criticize your Wife’s Faults.”

69. Clipping: “There is no Necessity for the Visitor...”70. Clipping: “Seattle” (upside down).71. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. March 16, 1898. Front. 

“Men of Science to explore Alaska.”

72. Skagway-Atlin Budget. July 11, 1899. “700 Worth of 

Clothing.”

73. Clipping: “Keep your Secret from your Friends...”74. Clipping: “Seattle to Chilkoot Pass.”75. Skagway-Atlin Budget. July 11, 1899. Front Page. 

“Great Feast,” “Sound Talk.”

76. Skagway-Atlin Budget. July 11, 1899. “She Would 

and Wouldn’t.”

77. Memorandum of Gold Bullion, No. 1435, Martin 

Itjen. (Print faded).

78. Clipping: “He’s Lost” Poem.79. Clipping: “Circle Sam’s False Teeth” Poem.80. Clipping: “Juneau Boys Find Old,” (cont.)81. Clipping (same as 80.): “Timer’s Cache of Nuggets.”82. Skagway-Atlin Budget. July 12, 1899. Front page. 

“Cut Rates,” “Sold Out.”

83. German mark. 1,000 “Eintaufend Mark.”84. Clipping: “Thirty.”85. German mark. “Fiinkig Millionen Mark.”86. 2 Clippings: The Daily Alaskan. Friday, Jun.:/”It’s 

Cheaper to Live.”

87. Clipping: “Windfall/Bear Appears/Pow-Wow.”88. Clipping: Cartoon of man in uniform holding toy 

train car.

89. Clipping: Ads: “Spot Cash/Sta90. Clipping: Klondyke Musher. “I

wood.”

91. Clipping: Ads: “City of Seattle92. Clipping: “Freemasonry.”93. “Form of Liquor petition/Bosto94. Clipping: “Terrors of Chilkoot 95. Clipping: The Bonanza photo 96. Clipping: “Alaska’s First Home

Museum.”

97. Clipping: Thirty-Eighth Year.98. Clipping: Ad: Clancy Theater.99. Moore’s Wharf Drayage Receip100. The Daily Alaskan. June 23, 18

“Freight to Dawson!”

101. Clipping: “Mae West Goes to M102. Clipping: “Huge Grizzly.”103. Coasting Manifest.104. Tag: Dyea & Dawson City Tra Co.105. Receipt: Packers Receipt, Dyea  Co.”106. Coasting Manifest. 1899. “Cit107. Certificate (blank) for “Shares o ___Dated___.”108. Paper with illegible print, possib109. (publication name was unclear)  “Skagway Alaska...compiled by  Frye-Bruhn Co.”

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128. Clipping: “All Around Alaska.”

129. The Daily Alaskan. Dec. 31, 1917. Co Watching.”130. Skagway Daily Alaskan. Jan 1, 1918. “ lic School Ranks...”131. Clipping: in pencil: Sept. 11 (or 16). “ from Skagway...”132. Dawson Weekly News. Oct. 25, 1907. “ First Session.”133. Progress Edition – Daily Alaska Empire

 Territorial Officials of Alaska.”134. (no title or date. Probably The Daily A “Strawberries”/”John Kalem, the Groce135. The Daily Alaskan. Sept. 6, 1904. “Go

 So/Retreat is Cut off.”136. The Daily Alaskan. Oct. 8, 1899. In in AB.” “Society,” “Peoples Furniture & C

The Daily Alaskan. Sept. 8, 1904. Fron

 sians May Escape.”137. Cloth sign: “Bohemian Beer c5 per gla138. (no title or date): “Strawberries,” “H.D139. The Daily Alaskan. Sept. 1, 1904. “Ru tory at Liaoyang.”140. Clipping: “City Brewing Lager Beer.”141. The Daily Alaskan. Oct. 8, 1899. Ads:  Money King,” “White Pass & Yukon R142. Clipping: “Black Bear on Kenai Penins143. Sunday Morning Alaskan. Oct. 8, 1899 “Miller Prosecuted...”

110. (publication name was unclear) Reverse side of 109.  “Hotels...Newspaper...Skagway’s Climate...To the  Sportsman...The tourist.”111. Receipt: Telephone Exchange Service. 1/1/1901.  Frye-Bruhn & Co. to Alaska General Electric Co.112. Receipt: Frye Bruhn to Skagway Light & Water Co.  Jan. 1900.113. Receipt: Frye Bruhn Co. to Arctic Telephone Col,  Dv. Sept 1901.114. The Seattle Daily Times. Jan. 12, 1898. Cover. “Ex  tra!” “No Starvation.”115. The Seattle Daily Times. Page 8. “Phantom Horse  Market,” “Alaska Footwear.”116. Label (fragment): “5c Cigar.”117. Label: “The Owl Cigar.”118. The Seattle Daily Times. Jan. 12, 1898. “No Starva  tion cont.,” “Our Overcoats.”119. Clipping: “The Old Trading Post – Fairbanks.”120. Progress Edition – Daily Alaska Empire. “Views on &  around Juneau.”121. The Daily Alaskan. July 12, 1923. Front. “Skagway 

 receives unexpected dignitaries.”122. Clipping: “Women in the Klondike.”123. Clipping: “Many people are laboring...”124. Clipping: “A good double team will haul.”125. Clipping: “It is a sight worth going many mile.”126. Skagway Daily Alaskan. Page 7. “The White Pass &  Yukon Rt.”127. Clipping: “Still Ahead.”

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144. Coasting Manifest: “City of Seattle.” Feb. 1899.

145. Invoice from “Morgan Oyster Company, Seattle,  Washington___190_ to Frye Bruhn Co. 146. Bill: From Skagway (publication name was unclear)  Tramway 189_ to Skagway Meat Market.147. Clipping with Ads arranged vertically: “The Monogram,”  “R.H. Peale & Co.,” “White Pass Hotel,” “Moore’s Wharf  Co.,” “Pacific & Arctic Railway & Navigation Co.”148. Invoice: Westacott & Knight...Manufacturers...Import  ers...Dealers...Portland, Ore. Jan. 15, 1901.149. Business license: Arctic Meat Co. July 1, 1902.150. (unclear)Stationary. “Winters & Hall/Manufacturers’ Agents  operating Steamer Mocking Bird Bet. Skaguay and Dyea.  Skaguay, Alaska ___189_.”151. “Owner’s or Agent’s Manifest of Articles Exported by Rail,”  delivered by Gantry & Frandson to Pacific and Arctic Rail  way and Navigation Co. at Skagway, Alaska.152. “Owner’s or Agent’s Manifest of Articles Exported by Rail  way,” delivered by H.D. Clark to PARN for export to White  Horse.153. Receipt: July 8, 1898. Received of Gust Holmquist ...for  toll July 7th and 8th. Signed: Frank E. Burns.

154. Toll Receipt from Skagway and Yukon Transportation and  Improvement Co.155. “Alaska Pacific Express Company/Owner’s or Agent’s Mani  fest of Articles Exported by Railway”, H.F. Taylor, Agent.  Sept. 23, (date unclear)1908.156. Ad: “Cheney’s Boston Store Leading Clothiers and Hatters,  Broadway Skagway.”

157. Invoice: Jan. 19, 1901 to Jo Transfer/From Frye-Bruhn M

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19. Photo Book/ Mining on Hunker Creek

20. “ “ / Elevator.21. “ “ / Canadian Klondike Pow

House.

22. “ “ / Dredge Canadian No. 3.23. “ “ / Winches, Canadian No 324. “ “ / Looking up Klondike Ri25. “ “ / Bonanza basin.26. “ “ / Ground Sluicing.27. “ “ / Hydraulic operations on 28. “ “ / Yukon No. 4.29. “ “ / Stern view of dredge, Ca30. “ “ / Dredge, Canadian No. 431. “ “ / Ground sluicing, Lower 32. “ “ / Caribou on Dawson-Gla33. The Yukon Territory. Page 186. Silver 

34. The Yukon Territory. Page 196. Closin

tion.

35. The Yukon Territory. Page 202. Cable 

Yukon.

36. General Information. Page 215. Daw

school.

37. Munsey’s Magazine. Page 718. White P38. “ “ . Page 726. Whit

ids.

39. “ “ . Page (page num

From the Klondike to St. Michael.

40. Historical Sketch. Page 11. Commiss

Dawson.

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A. White painted felt paper.B. Butterfly print Wallpaper border.C. White painted felt paper.D. White painted felt paper.1. Label: “Herring Rake.”2. Label: “Now Outlawed.”3. Label: “slot Machine.”4. Label: “House Game.”5. Photo Book/Whitehorse, Y.T.6. “ “ /Sluicing...Dominion Creek.7. “ “ /Yukon No. 8.8. “ “ /Yukon No. 3.9. “ “ /Dredge, Canadian No. 3 1913.10. “ “ /A birds eye view...valley of the Klondike.11. “ “ /Interior of Canadian Klondike Power Co.12. Fox Farming. Page 179.13. The Yukon Territory. Page 194.

14. Agriculture. Page 207.15. Agriculture. Page 211.16. Munsey’s Magazine. Page 716. On the Dyea Trail.17. “ “ . Page 724. Lake Lindeman.18. “ “ . Page 738. Dawson.

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41. The Yukon Territory. Page 54. Muck bank.42. Alfred Thompson, Esp portrait.43. Bow Gauntree of 7’ steel Bucyrus dredge.44. Bucket Line, Canadian No. 3.45. Dredging. Page 91. Winch room.46. Yukon No. 2.47. Dredging. Page 95. Bucket with pin...48. The Yukon Territory. Page 98. Table of lost time.

49. Hydraulicking. Page 119. Bunker hill.50. Coal-bearing formations. Page 161. Character of the 

coal.

51. Chapter XI Transportation.52. Mileage Chart from Dawson, the Yukon river.53. Agriculture. Page 209. Potato fields near Dawson.54. The Yukon Territory. Page 222. Dall Sheep.55. Munseys Magazine. Page 720. White Pass.56. Munseys Magazine. Page 730. Ft. Cudahy.57. Typical scene at Summit of Chilkoot.58. The Yukon Territory. Page 26. (written at bottom & 

on 59: “1913-1914 from Reports of Territory, Published in Ottawa 1916”).

59. Dredging. Page 99. Bow Gauntree...60. Dredging. Page 101. Detail cost per cubic yard...61. Dredging. Page 103. Trommel or washing screen..62. The Yukon Territory. Page 110. Prospecting Dredging 

ground.

63. Dredging. Page 111. Yukon No. 9.64. Main Drive setup.../Upper tumbler...65. The Yukon Territory. Page 116. Lovett Gulch...

66. Hydraulicking. Page 117. Hydrau67. The Yukon Territory. Page 122. Yu

68. Chapter X, Fox Farming.69. Transportation. Page 191. Dawso70. Transportation. Page 203. White 

“Chilkoot Pass” in ink.

71. Munsey’s Magazine. The Klondike. 72. “ “ . Page 708. Tr73. “ “ . How Klondik74. “ “ . Page 732. Sc75. The Alaska Sportsman. Page 10. “I 

Bear.”

76. Daily Alaska Empire. March 22, 19

Unlimited.

77. “ “ “ . Page 4. Ph

uities.

78. News clipping. Men who Figured 

Gastineau Channel.

79. Map: The Eldorado ~ Bonanza. Q

ing Co.

80. Newspaper, The Beginning of the 81. Daily Alaska Empire. March 22, 19

rial Museum.

82. “ “ “ “ “ 

Largest Low Grade Gold Ore Prod

83. “ “ “ “ “ 

Center for Progress of Territory.

84. “ “ “ “ “ 

tion. U.S. Signal Corps...

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85. Newspaper. Mr.. Soapy Smith’s Alaskan Waterloo.

86. The Daily Alaskan. Progress & Development Edition. Alaska’s No. 1 Industry, U.S. Flag.

87. “ “ “ “ “ “ “ 

. Front. Alaska Reveals...

88. “ “ “ “ “ “ “ 

. Front. Alaska’s Vast Area.

89. Progress & Development Edition. Page 8. Sea was 

Good to Ketchikan.

90. “ “ “ “ . Page 2. Seward 

Area’s Future Bright.

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...”PT”...

7. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Fr

1897. 7a. Newspaper photo: “Gay on No. 13 Bonanza.”

8. Calendar page with black numb

Halloween.

9. Poster: “Arctic AB Brotherhood

tember 1901.

10. Drawing (brown pen on beige p

Camp Skagway No. 1” by A. FuAlaska.

11. Drawing (brown pen on beige p

Parlor.

12. [v]ol. VIII No. Page 3. “Itjen R13. Letter: The Los Angeles Breakf

1935. re: National Defense W

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15. Extra Passenger lists of Passengers S.S. P. Sophia Sheet 

#2.

16. Letter: To: Mrs. Harriet Pullen, Skagway, Alaska. 

From: Seattle, Wash. October 29, 1929. re: Jefferson Smith.

17. Letter 16 continued.18. Letter 16 continued.19. Clipping: Victoria Times. June 1, 1972. “Arthur 

Mayse: From the North, a Footnote to History.”

20. The Daily Alaska Empire. Juneau, Alaska. March 22, 

1936. Fifth section, page 1.

21. Progress and De[velopment Edition – The Daily 

Alaska Empire. (date unclear)March 22, 1936]. Page 6.

22. The Daily Alaska Empire. Juneau, Alaska. March 22, 

1936. Fourth Section, page 1.

23. Progress and Development – The Daily Alaska Empire. 

March 22, 1936. Page 4.

24. The Daily Alaskan (green print). Skagway, Alaska. 

Thursday March 17, 1904. Front Page.

25. (publication name was unclear) Same as 24. Green 

print.

26. The Daily Alaskan. Skagway, Alaska. October 2, 

1903. Front page.

27. Newspaper ad: “The B.M. Behrends Company, Geo. 

Blanchard. Manager. Closing out Sale.”

28. Wallpaper: Beige with blue and brown vertical design. 

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1. Newspaper. 1904. “Will be H

Fight Attracting Much AttentioBehrends Mercantile CompanyMgr.”

2. Newspaper. Nov. 1, 1903. “Ge

Pleads Glty and is Sentenced.” son...B.M. Benrends Co., Geo

3. Wallpaper: Beige with blue and 

sign.

4. Butterfly wallpaper border.5. Alaska Yukon Magazine. Photo 6. “ “ “ . Pho7. “ “ “ . Pho8. B&W panoramic photo of grou9. Magazine page photo: “Passeng10. Label: Sawed-off Shotgun/foun

the trail/Presented by J.L. Frola

11. Cover: “Arctic Brotherhood Hi

erhood building Alaska Yukon PSeattle 1909. A.Y.P.X Edition.

12. Arctic Brotherhood History. Ac13. “ “ “ . P

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14. Clipping: “Taft wants to be an A.B.” United Press. 

Sept. 9.

15. [Arctic Brotherhood History] Photos: 1) Eskimos at 

home, 2) Freighting on the Yukon, 3) (article name was unclear)...cache.

16. Arctic Brotherhood History. Page 12.17. “ “ “ . Picture of Grand Arctic 

Chief Clarence S. Hannum.

18. “ “ “ . Page 18.19. “ “ “ . Page 19.20. “ “ “ . Page 29.21. (article name was unclear) “ “ “. 

Page 88. Photos: 1) fish at Chilkoot Cannery Haines, Alaska, 2) Vegetables grown at Porcupine, Alaska.

22. [Arctic Brotherhood History]. Page 70. Photos: 1) 

Rotary clearing snow, Alaska Central RR. Seward, 2) A May day in Seward, Alaska.

23. Arctic Brotherhood History. Page 91.24. (article name was unclear) “ “ “. 

Page 62. Photos: 1) Pyramid Mountains, Sitka, Alaska, 2) Sitka looking East, showing Three Sister Peak.

25. [Arctic Brotherhood History]. Page 58. Photo: Some 

of the members of the Arctic Brotherhood at Sitka.

26. [Arctic Brotherhood History]. Page 56. Photo: Interior A.B. Hall, Sitka.27. (article name was unclear) “ “ “. 

Page 40. Photo: Atlin, British Columbia.

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1. Russian Church at St. Michaels2. Alaskan Reindeer/Esquimo Rei3. The Original High Hat.4. Aleut Boy/A Belle of the Aleuti5. Esquimo Basket Maker.6. Natives of Southeastern Alaska/7. The Mysterious Aleutians.8. The Battle for the Harem/will-o

ing.

9. The crater floor of Akutan.10. Paradoxical Alaska/Akutan Crat11. The Aghileen Pinnacles.12. Southeastern Alaska Fish Canne

the Alaska Peninsula.

13. Holy Cross on the Yukon.14. Cutting seed Potatoes at Holy C

Time at Holy Cross.

15. Cliff Climbing Glacier Priest st16. Grey Ghosts from Nowhere/Ex

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17. In an Alaskan Fiord.18. (Title Page): “All the illustrations....photographed by 

Father Hubbard...with Zeiss Tessar lens (photo of the Glacier Priest and Katmai).”

19. The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.20. Plenachrome Pools.21. Katmai’s Children/Rare merelet and egg.22. Panorama of Katmai Crater.23. Aniachak Crater.24. The new Aniachak Wonder/Tropical Orchids in 

Alaska.

25. The Majesty of the Mendenhall.26. Where’s Mama!/Auto Road from Juneau.27. Lynn Canal.28. Taku Waterfall/The Taku Glacier.29. Nature Unspoiled by Man.30. Twin Glacier Alaska/A Nightmare of Glacier Crevasses.31. Resting in the Moonlight.32. Mush, You Malamutes!/A case of Puppies.33. Petroglyphs of Ancient Man.34. Winter Hunting Gear/An Exciting Game of Chess.35. An Esquimo Cecelia.36. Yukon Cache House/A Yukon winter Fish Trap.37. Tongass Village Totems.38. A Tenah Indian Belle/A Tenah Rebecca at the Well.39. Maggie and Theresa Sipiri.40. Peek-A-Boo/The Motorship “Polar Bear.”

41. The Genii of Shishaldin’s Smoke.42. Expert Aviators/Bogoslof Sea lion.43. The Boiling River of Akutan.44. The Wild Heart of Kodiak/Alaska Porc45. Ice Erosion.46. The Silver Horde/Brailing salmon.47. Spring Plowing on the Yukon.48. Alaska Cotton/Getting Ready to Goose 49. The Glass Cliff of Aniakchak.50. Kodiak Eagle Nest/Fury Incarnate.51. Sunset in the Aleutians.52. The Ghost Forest of Katmai The Fallen 53. Explorers in the Valley of Ten Thousan

ture’s Fireless Cooker.

54. A Volcanic Sanctuary of the Wilderness

Hades.

55. Blue-eyed Mageik.56. Inside Aniakchak Crater.57. Vulcan’s Attempt at Bread making/A Vo58. Novarupta Crater.59. Ice Cave of the Mendenhall.60. Scenic Marvels of the Taku/Juneau, Ca

Alaska.

61. Auk Lake, Alaska.62. Interglacial forest stump/Ice Records of 63. The Taj Mahal in Ice.64. Morning Mists on the Taku/Shooting S65. Their Ancestors were wolves.66. A Primitive Aleut Workshop.

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67. Volcanoes out of place/the noble sled dog.

68. Esquimo fire Makers/Esquimo Burial Grounds.69. Label: Collection of Planes.70. Label: Scraper.71. Label: Chopper.72. Label: Shell Crimper 10 gauge Shotgun.73. Label: Shell Crimper 12 gauge Shotgun.74. Circular paper clock: “Day/Newman Clock Co./Chicago/No. 155/Night.”75. on wall in pencil: “no 7.”76. on wall in pencil: “no 8.”77. butterfly wallpaper border.

Jeff. Smiths Parlor MuseumInterior Wall FinishesSection A-2South WallDrawn by Tara Ikenouye 8/8/2008Key by Debbie Sanders 8/8/20081. Metal sign: “Dyea-Klondike Tr2. Butterfly wallpaper border.3. Painted White Paper.4. “ “ “5. “ “ “6. “ “ “7. “ “ “8. “ “ “9. “ “ “10. Label: “Soapy Says” No Smokin11. Pencil on wall: “Pat. 09.9 1906

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Interior Wall FinishesSection BWest WallDrawn by Grant CrosbyKey by Deb BoettcherScript written on wall in Pencil unless noted otherwise.1. “Food Cache.”2. “Henry Shaver.”3. “330.”4. “Top Cabin.”5. “5” (within a circle).6. “no 2.”7. “Paker.”8. “first Fly A.K. – 1920.”9. “1908 (unclear) Hukull.”10. “Shop.”11. “Base Ball 40.”12. Label: “Hide covered pack saddle.”13. “Basket Ball.”14. “July 11 – 1923.”15. “(word unclear) Boats.”16. “VSP.”17. “AB.”18. “Boats.”19. “Soapy.”20. Label: “John Williams/Driver and owner of the Busin 

which Harding’s party rode down to their boat.”

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1. “Mae West.”2. Label: “Mule Shoe.”3. Label: “Early Fuse Box.”4. Label: “Slate.”5. Label: “Lightening Arrestor.”6. Label: “Shoes – Oxen.”7. “Arctic T.”8. Label: “Belt presented by Lelan

ed by Archie Brenna/ Capt Belt uniform worn by Skagway’s earl

9. Label: “Wire Stretcher.”10. Label: “Skagway’s/ First switch11. “No 2 S.”12. “SK.”

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Interior Wall FinishesSection BEast WallDrawn by Grant Crosby 8/8/2008Key by Debbie Sanders 8/8/2008

Script written on wall in pencil unless noted otherwise.

1. “33”2. “32”3. “100”4. “36”5. “13”6. “15” (within a circle)7. “11”8. “34”9. “30”10. Label: “Lunch Pails”11. “16”12. “4 July”13. “35”14. “No 12”15. “No 10”16. “\\\\”17. “9”18. “131” (within a circle)19. “///”20. Adhesive Label: “White Pass & Yukon Route”. 20a. Pencil 

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on wall: “McKenzie” 

21. “5”22. “21”23. “No 20”24. “Bennett”25. “40”26. “22”27. “23”28. “30”29. “Canada”30. “#”31. “23”32. “41”33. Label: “Handmade Rings used on the masts of 

early sailboats”

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APPENDIX B: JEFF. SMITHS PARLOR MUSEUM MOVE 1963-1964

Figure 148: The Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum on the south side of Sixth Avenue, ca. 1930s. Notice the building in the rear connected to the main building, but off center (Dedman’s Photo Shop KLGO 6th 10-962). 

When the Jeff. Smiths Parlor Muwas moved in 1963-1964, the reof the building and the main porbuilding were moved separately. Tto believe that they were completstructures. But the images in this will document the move and illuthe sections that are now referred B and C were connected to Room to George Rapuzzi’s ownership omuseum and his subsequent relobuilding from Sixth to Second A

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Figure 150: The rear portion of the Jeff. Smiths Parlor M

B and C) . Note the clearly altered eave (in the upper riphoto) that would accommodate connection to the front photograph shows the building being dragged from 6th Aon 2nd Avenue (George and Edna Rapuzzi Collection, KLGO, inventory print #00081.029).

Figure 149: The rear portion of the Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum building (Rooms B and C) prepared for relocation to 2nd Avenue in 1964. Compare the horizontal shiplap siding to the rear building in Figure 134. Also note that the doorway on the right lacks a door or door frame suggesting that this was a passageway between Rooms A-2 and B. (George and Edna Rapuzzi Collection, Rasmuson Foundation, KLGO inventory print #00081.029).

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Figures 151 and 152: On the left, a current image of the opening in north wall of Room B that corresponds with the doorway in Figures 136 and 13

close-up view behind the piece of wood covering the opening. Note the horizontal boards covering the exterior of the opening (NPS July 2009).

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Figure 153: The top image shows Jeff. Sm

building, 1964. The rear portion of the exB and C) is being attached to main buildthe horizontal boards securing the double building as shown on the interior in the fand Edna Rapuzzi Collection, Rasmuson print #00081.044).

Figure 154: This image is a current photoof the double doors located on the south w2009).

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