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Preservation Alaska’s annual list of endangered properties identifies sites in disrepar or and facing other threats, including development
Eleven sites from Southeast Alaska to the Bering Strait region were named Friday as the state’s most endangered historic properties. The annual list was released by Preservation Alaska, the nonprofit formally called Alaska Association for Historic Preservation. The organization has been publishing lists of top endangered properties since 1991; usually there are 10 on each […] The post Boats, a lighthouse, churches among sites named as Alaska’s most at-risk historic properties appeared first on A
Wolf Creek Boatworks near Hollis tops Preservation Alaska’s list of 11 sites facing threats.
It’s not an uncommon story for cultural artifacts, or tribal property to go missing or fall into the wrong hands. A less common story? For those objects to be returned. In Sitka this July , a Kik.sadi clan house was repatriated after nearly 20 years in the possession of another clan. Its new legal owner, Jerrick Hope-Lang, hopes the historic exchange will spur a greater conversation about repatriation.