Alaska Governor's Mansion
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History
The original budget for the 2½-story Script error: No such module "convert". frame structure and furnishing was $40,000 and included planned servants quarters and a territorial museum on the third floor which were never built.[1]
The first floor includes a reception hall, drawing room, library, dining room, office, kitchen, two pantries, and a conservatory. The second floor contains four large bedrooms, a sewing room and three bathrooms.
In 1936, the wood finish of the exterior was plastered over and painted white.
Between 1939 and 1940, Tlingit carvers Charlie Tagook and William N. Brown crafted a totem pole that sits outside the mansion on commission from the Civilian Conservation Corps.[2][3]
From 1967 to 1968, two guest suites and one large bedroom were added to the third floor.
In 1983, a $2.5 million renovation that restored the interior decor to its original 1912 design also included new heating, electrical, plumbing and security systems.
In its current configuration the number of rooms in the mansion, excluding great halls, garages, closets, and bathrooms, is twenty-six. There are ten bathrooms, six bedrooms, and eight fireplaces, amounting to a total area of Script error: No such module "convert"..
Notable visitors
- President Warren G. Harding in 1923.
- Charles Lindbergh in 1969.
- Former President Gerald Ford in 1989.
See also
References
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External links
- Office of the Governor of Alaska
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. AK-112, "Alaska's Governor's Mansion, 716 Calhoun Avenue, Juneau, Juneau Borough, AK"
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- 1912 establishments in Alaska
- Colonial Revival architecture in Alaska
- Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska
- Governors' mansions in the United States
- Historic American Buildings Survey in Alaska
- Houses completed in 1912
- Houses in Juneau, Alaska
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska
- Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Juneau, Alaska
- Neoclassical architecture in Alaska