Places to see at Sitka, Alaska

Best Places to visit in Sitka, Alaska - Best Things to do in Sitka, AK
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Sitka Pioneer Home 0.1 7
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

The Sitka Pioneer Home is an assisted living home, located in the U.S. state of Alaska at 120 Katlian Street in downtown Sitka. It is operated by the Division of Pioneer Homes within the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services and it is the oldest and fourth largest of the six homes in the State. The building was designed by the Tacoma firm of Heath, Gove & Bell.

Currently, the Home can care for 65 residents including those suffering from Alzheimer's disease, or other forms of dementia. The home provides three Levels of Care: Level 1 or \"Independent\", Level 2 or \"Basic Assistance\", and Level 3 or \"24-Hour Care\".

The property, including the Totem Square located across Katlian Street, was placed on the listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

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Mills House 0.1 7
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

Mills House may refer to:

  • Mills House (Sitka, Alaska)
  • W.P. Mills House, Sitka, Alaska
  • Mills House (Kensett, Arkansas)
  • Mills House (Pine Bluff, Arkansas)
  • Henry Clay Mills House, Van Buren, Arkansas
  • Elijah Mills House, Windsor, Connecticut
  • Oliver W. Mills House, Windsor, Connecticut
  • Timothy Dwight Mills House, Windsor, Connecticut
  • Mills House (Griffin, Georgia), a National Register of Historic Places listing in Spalding County, Georgia
  • Mills House and Smokehouse, Griffin, Georgia
  • William Mills House, Osawatomie, Kansas, a National Register of Historic Places listing in Miami County, Kansas
  • Davis Mills House, Needham, Massachusetts
  • Timothy Mills House, Morristown, New Jersey, a National Register of Historic Places listing in Morris County, New Jersey
  • Mills House (Springer, New Mexico)
  • Gen. William A. Mills House, Mount Morris, New York
  • Mills House (New York, New York)
  • Mills House (Rome, New York)
  • Harriet May Mills House, Syracuse, New York
  • Warren Mills House, Klamath Falls, Oregon, a National Register of Historic Places listing in Oregon
  • Lewis H. Mills House (1916), Portland, Oregon
  • Lewis H. Mills House (1929), Portland, Oregon
  • Mills House (Fort Mill, South Carolina)
  • Richard W. and Margaret Mills House, Lodi, Wisconsin
  • Simeon Mills House, Madison, Wisconsin
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Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall 0.12 7
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, or Sitka Camp No. 1, is significant for being the original chapter of the Alaska Native Brotherhood, an Alaska-wide Native organization. It is located on the waterfront in Sitka, Alaska, on Katlian Street.

The two-story building, built in 1914, is of wood-frame construction, and is about 40 feet (12\u00a0m) wide and 60 feet (18\u00a0m) long. Most of its length extends out over water, supported on pilings. The roof is trimmed at front and back by plain bargeboard with seven unadorned corbel-like supports in the form of triangular struts. Architectural evidence suggests that the building has been altered and enlarged; adding the front quarter of the building and raising the roof to a full two stories probably occurred sometime after its original construction.

The interior of the building is mainly taken up by a large two-story auditorium, with the stage at the rear (over the water). A narrow gallery, accessed by stairs within the auditorium space, wraps around its rear and side walls. The front of the building has a lobby area on the first floor, and office space for the Brotherhood on the second floor.

The Alaska Native Brotherhood was founded in Sitka by Tlingit natives in 1912 as a vehicle to fight discrimination against them in restaurants and movie theaters. The organization, which now has a much broader membership across Alaska's many native groups, has been successful in bringing about significant changes for its members, including securing United States citizenship for Alaska natives and passage of the Alaska Historic Preservation Act.

The hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.

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US Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey Seismological and Geomagnetic House 0.14 7
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

The US Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey Seismological and Geomagnetic House, also known as the Forest Service House, is a historic house at 210 Seward Street in Sitka, Alaska. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, resting on a concrete foundation, with a gambrel roof. The house was built in 1916 by the United States Department of Commerce to house employees of the U.S. National Geodetic Survey working at the Sitka Geomagnetic Observatory. In 1929 modifications were made in its basement to house seismological instruments here, instead of in the observatory buildings to the north. The observatory was moved in 1940 to a new site further northwest; this house was acquired by the United States Forest Service, which has used it in a variety of ways, including office space and housing, since then.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

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Saint Michael's Russian Orthodox Cathedral 0.19 7
Religion, Cathedrals, Churches, Interesting Places, Eastern Orthodox Churches

St. Michael's Cathedral (Russian: \u0421\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0440 \u0410\u0440\u0445\u0430\u043d\u0433\u0435\u043b\u0430 \u041c\u0438\u0445\u0430\u0438\u043b\u0430 Sobor Arkhangela Mikhaila, also known as the Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel) is a cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of Alaska, at Lincoln and Maksoutoff Streets in Sitka, Alaska. The earliest Orthodox cathedral in the New World, it was built in the nineteenth century, when Alaska was under the control of Russia, though this structure burned down in 1966. After 1872, the cathedral came under the control of the Diocese of Alaska. It had been a National Historic Landmark since 1962, notable as an important legacy of Russian influence in North America and Southeast Alaska in particular.

An accidental fire destroyed the cathedral during the night of January 2, 1966, but it was subsequently rebuilt. The new building's green domes and golden crosses are a prominent landmark in Sitka. Some of the icons date to the mid-17th century; two icons are by Vladimir Borovikovsky.

St. Michael's Cathedral is located in the downtown business district in Sitka, on the southwestern coast of Baranof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeastern Alaska. Its surroundings along Lincoln Street and Maksoutoff Street, which ends at the cathedral, have not altered much during the last more than 100 years. Harrigan Centennial Hall on Harbor Drive lies behind the cathedral, while Pioneers' Home is to its left. The restored Russian Bishop's House, home of the first Orthodox Bishop of Alaska, Innocent (Veniaminov), is also nearby, operated by the National Park Service as part of the Sitka National Historical Park.

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Sitka United States Post Office and Court House 0.23 7
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

The Sitka U.S. Post Office and Court House, also known as the Sitka Post Office and now serving as Sitka City Hall, is a Moderne style building located at 100 Lincoln Street in the center of Sitka, Alaska. One of eight Federal buildings constructed in the Alaska Territory in the 1930s, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

It is a poured-concrete structure that is rectangular in shape, set on a raised basement. The reduced-width second level gives the building the appearance of having wings on either side. The building was historically accessed through an entry on the first floor, about 10 feet above street level, and accessed via symmetrically placed stairways. Its main entrance has since been relocated to the basement level. The main block is divided into five bays, each of which has slightly recessed windows, with a decorative panel between the first and second levels.

The building housed a number of federal offices, and housed the Sitka Public Library as well between 1938 and 1943. The post office took over the entire first floor in 1963, and was moved in 1986 to a location outside the city center, despite public protests. The building then sat vacant until the city took it over for use as city hall in 1993.

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Russian Bishops House 0.25 7
Religion, Other Temples, Cultural, Museums, Interesting Places, Other Museums

The Russian Bishop's House (Russian: \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0410\u0440\u0445\u0438\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0414\u043e\u043c), once the Russian Mission Orphanage (Russian: \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u041c\u0438\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044f \u041e\u0440\u0444\u0430\u043d\u0430\u0434\u0436), is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at Lincoln and Monastery Streets in Sitka, Alaska. Built in 1841\u201343, this log structure is one of the oldest surviving buildings of Russian America, and was one of the centerpieces of the Russian Orthodox church's efforts to spread its influence among the natives of Alaska. It was the home and administrative center of Ivan Veniaminov, the first Bishop of Alaska, later canonized as Innocent of Alaska. The house is now a unit of Sitka National Historical Park, and is administered by the National Park Service.

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Castle Hill 0.27 7
Urban Environment, Gardens And Parks, Cultural, Natural, Interesting Places, Nature Reserves, National Parks

Castle Hill may refer to:

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Castle Hill Park 0.27 7
Urban Environment, Gardens And Parks, Cultural, Natural, Interesting Places, Nature Reserves, National Parks

The Rothley Brook is a left bank tributary of the River Soar in Leicestershire, England.

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Russian-American Building No. 29 0.28 7
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

The Russian-American Building No. 29 (Russian: \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e-\u0410\u043c\u0435\u0440\u0438\u043a\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0435 \u0417\u0434\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u2116 29), also known as Tilson Building or Building No. 29, Sitka, is a historic commercial building at 202-206 Lincoln Street in Sitka, Alaska. A National Historic Landmark, it is the only Russian colonial commercial structure standing in Sitka, and one of only two Russian colonial buildings in the city (the other is the Russian Bishop's House, also a National Historic Landmark.)

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Hanlon-Osbakken House 0.33 7
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

The Hanlon-Osbakken House, also known as the Osbakken House, is a historic house at 419 Lincoln Street in Sitka, Alaska. Built c. 1892\u201396, this two-story wood-frame structure is one only two surviving Queen Anne Victorian buildings in the city. It has a side-gable roof which extends down to the first floor on the left side of the main facade, sheltering a porch. On the right side, there is a projecting bay window on the first floor, above which rises an octagonal tower-like dormer topped by a pyramidal roof. The house was originally built as a rectangular block with a center hall plan, but this was turned into an L shape by an 1896 addition at the rear. The house was built by William Basil Sherigan for his sister-in-law Anna and her husband, John Hanlon. Their daughter, Margaret Hanlon Osbakken, lived in the house until 1991.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

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Saint Peter's by the Sea Episcopal Church 0.36 7
Religion, Churches, Interesting Places, Other Churches

Saint Peter's-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church, known locally as The Gingerbread Church, is a historic church located at the junction of Ocean Avenue and Lake Drive in Cape May Point, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1992. It was later added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 3, 1995 for its significance in Stick/Eastlake architecture and also community planning and development.

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See House 0.4 7
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

The See House is the rectory of St. Peter's Church, at 611 Lincoln Street in Sitka, Alaska. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, designed by H. L. Duhring, Jr. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and built in 1905 for Peter Trimble Rowe, the first Episcopal bishop of Alaska. The design was completed in 1899, when the church was built, but a lack of funding prevented its immediate construction. The house is, like the church, a fine local example of Gothic Revival architecture.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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W.P. Mills House 0.46 7
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

The W.P. Mills House, also known as Cushing House, Longenbaugh House and Island House, is a historic house at 1 Maksoutoff Street in Sitka, Alaska. It occupies a prominent site in Sitka, located on a small island in the harbor at the end of a 400-foot (120\u00a0m) causeway. The house is located on the site where, during the Russian period in the early nineteenth century, a salt-making operation was located. In 1915, W. P. Mills, son of one of the former American owners of the saltery after the Alaska Purchase, hired Seattle-based architect Louis L. Mendal to design a house to stand on the old saltery's foundation. The design, which used the foundation as well as the massive wooden door of the saltery, adapted the foundation to provide a sheltered and private courtyard space, and to take advantage of the expansive views available.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

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Sitka National Cemetery 0.56 7
Cemeteries, Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Burial Places, Interesting Places, War Graves, Monuments

Sitka National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Sitka, Alaska. It encompasses 4.3 acres (1.7\u00a0ha), and as of the end of 2005 had 1,049 interments. It is administered as part of the Fort Richardson National Cemetery by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Sheldon Jackson Museum 0.59 7
Cultural, Museums, Interesting Places, Other Museums

Sheldon Jackson College (SJC) was a small private college located on Baranof Island in Sitka, Alaska, United States. Founded in 1878, it was the oldest institution of higher learning in Alaska and maintained a historic relationship with the Presbyterian Church. The college was named in honor of Rev. Sheldon Jackson, an early missionary and educational leader in Alaska.

Due to declining enrollment, the college closed in 2007; four years later, ownership of its campus was transferred to the organization behind the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. In addition to the fine arts camp, the Sheldon Jackson Museum, the Sitka Sound Science Center, the Sitka Summer Music Festival, the Sitka International Hostel, Outer Coast College, and several other organizations are located in buildings on the campus of the former school. The school buildings are part of the Sheldon Jackson School National Historic Landmark District.

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Sitka National Historical Park 0.89 7
Historic, Urban Environment, Natural, Nature Reserves, Other Nature Conservation Areas, Historical Places, Gardens And Parks, Cultural, Interesting Places, Historic Districts

Sitka National Historical Park (earlier known as Indian River Park and Totem Park) is a national historical park in Sitka in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was redesignated as a national historical park from its previous status as national monument on October 18, 1972. The park in its various forms has sought to commemorate the Tlingit and Russian experiences in Alaska.:\u200a7\u200a

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Sitka Naval Operating Base and U.S. Army Coastal Defenses 1.08 7
Historic, Historical Places, Interesting Places, Historic Districts

The Sitka Naval Operating Base and U.S. Army Coastal Defenses are the surviving elements of the World War II-era defenses and defense establishments in and around Sitka, Alaska. These facilities, in particular the airfields and naval bases, played a key role in the defense of Alaska, and in military operations against Japanese forces which occupied Attu and Kiska, two remote islands in the Aleutian chain. The Sitka facilities were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986.

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Cable House and Station 0.17 6
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

The Cable House and Station, also known as the Communications Center and Quarters, is a historic telecommunications building on Lincoln Street at Harbor Road in Sitka, Alaska. It is a modest two-story building, about 40 feet (12\u00a0m) square, with a hip roof. The building housed the telecommunications hub of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System (WAMCATS), a military communications network established in the first decade of the 20th century, during the period of the Alaska boundary dispute with neighboring Canada.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

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Emmons House 0.36 6
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

The Emmons House is a historic house at 601 Lincoln Street in Sitka, Alaska. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, roughly 25 feet (7.6\u00a0m) square, with a hip roof. The house was built in 1895 by Lieutenant George T. Emmons, who became one of the foremost anthropologists of the Tlingit people. Emmons served in Sitka for only four years, but he amassed a large number of Tlingit artifacts, and frequently returned to the area to continue his research. This house is the only place in Alaska closely associated with his life.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

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Battle of Sitka 0.12 3
Battlefields, Historic, Historical Places, Interesting Places

The Battle of Sitka (Russian: \u0421\u0440\u0430\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u0438 \u0421\u0438\u0442\u043a\u0435; 1804) was the last major armed conflict between Russians and Alaska Natives, and was initiated in response to the destruction of a Russian trading post two years before. The primary combatant groups were the Kiks.\u00e1di (\"Ones of K\u00edks\", Frog/Raven) Clan of Sheet\u02bck\u00e1 X\u02bc\u00e1at\u02bci (Baranof Island) of the Tlingit nation and agents of the Russian-American Company assisted by the Imperial Russian Navy.

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O'Connell Bridge 0.31 3
Bridges, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Bridges

O'Connell Bridge (Irish: Droichead U\u00ed Chonaill) is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, which joins O'Connell Street to D'Olier Street, Westmoreland Street and the south quays.

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Sitka Lutheran Church 0.21 2
Religion, Churches, Interesting Places, Other Churches

Sitka Lutheran Church (Finnish: Sitkan luterilainen kirkko) is an Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sitka, Alaska. Its first building was constructed in 1843 on what is now 224 Lincoln Street and was the first Protestant church in Alaska. The original church was built and its congregation established through the efforts of Arvid Adolf Ethol\u00e9n, the eighth Russian governor of Alaska. The land on which the church was constructed was deeded to the congregation in perpetuity by the Russian government at the time of the Alaska Purchase. The current church building is the third to be constructed on the site and was completed in 1967. It contains many of the furnishings from the original church, including its historic pipe organ and the altarpiece by Berndt Godenhjelm.

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Russian Cemetery 0.01 1
Cemeteries, Historic, Burial Places, Interesting Places

Church of the Nazarene 0.08 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Lutheran Cemetery 0.09 1
Cemeteries, Historic, Burial Places, Interesting Places

Sitka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall 0.13 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Russian Blockhouse 0.14 1
Architecture, Historic Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

Artists Cove 0.17 1
Cultural, Museums, Interesting Places, Art Galleries

Coliseum Theatre 0.18 1
Cultural, Cinemas, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places

The London Coliseum (also known as the Coliseum Theatre) is a theatre in St Martin's Lane, Westminster, built as one of London's largest and most luxurious \"family\" variety theatres. Opened on 24 December 1904 as the London Coliseum Theatre of Varieties, it was designed by the theatrical architect Frank Matcham for the impresario Oswald Stoll. Their ambition was to build the largest and finest music hall, described as the \"people's palace of entertainment\" of its age.

At the time of construction, the Coliseum was one of the few theatres in Europe to provide lifts for taking patrons to the upper levels of the house, and was the first theatre in England to have a triple revolve installed on its stage. The theatre has 2,359 seats making it the largest theatre in London.

After being used for variety shows, musical comedies, and stage plays for many years, then as a cinema screening films in the Cinerama format between 1963 and 1968, the Sadler's Wells Opera Company moved into the building in 1968. The Sadler's Wells company changed its name to the English National Opera in 1974 and today it is used primarily for opera as well as being the London home of the English National Ballet.

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Island Artists Gallery 0.19 1
Cultural, Museums, Interesting Places, Art Galleries

Gallery By The Sea 0.21 1
Cultural, Museums, Interesting Places, Art Galleries

Sitka Rose Gallery 0.23 1
Cultural, Museums, Interesting Places, Art Galleries

Sitka National Historical Park 0.25 1
Natural, Interesting Places, Nature Reserves, Other Nature Conservation Areas

First Presbyterian Church 0.25 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses 0.29 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Ave Maria Chapel 0.29 1
Religion, Churches, Interesting Places, Other Churches

First Baptist Church 0.29 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

Saint Gregory Nazianzen Catholic Church 0.32 1
Religion, Churches, Interesting Places, Catholic Churches

Moose Cemetery 0.37 1
Cemeteries, Historic, Burial Places, Interesting Places

Old City Cemetery 0.4 1
Cemeteries, Historic, Burial Places, Interesting Places

Japonski Island Boathouse 0.42 1
Architecture, Historic Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures

Kaisei Maru 0.46 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Odess Theater 0.56 1
Cultural, Theatres And Entertainments, Interesting Places, Other Theatres

Yaadaas Crest Pole 0.73 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Haa Léelk’u Ha’s Kaasdahéeni Deiyí Saanaheit Pole Kootéeyaa Pole 0.73 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Saanaheit Pole 0.73 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Saanaheit House Posts 0.74 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

ANB Cemetery 0.74 1
Cemeteries, Historic, Burial Places, Interesting Places

Bicentennial Pole 0.74 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Yaadaas Crest Corner Pole Fragments 0.75 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Sitka National Historical Park 0.75 1
Other, Unclassified Objects, Interesting Places, Tourist Object

Totem Conservation Exhibit 0.75 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Wooch Jin Dul Shat Kooteeya 0.76 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Frog/Raven Pole 0.77 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Yaadaas Crest Corner Pole—First Twin 0.81 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

United Methodist Church 0.81 1
Religion, Churches, Interesting Places, Other Churches

Wolf Pole 0.82 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Cormorant Memorial / Mortuary Column 0.84 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Church of Christ 0.88 1
Religion, Churches, Interesting Places, Other Churches

Raven/Shark Pole 0.89 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Yaadaas Crest Corner Pole—Second Twin 0.91 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Trader Legend Pole 0.92 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Raven Memorial Pole 0.94 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Gaanax.ádi /Raven Crest Pole 0.96 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Lakich’inei Pole 0.98 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Mosquito Legend Pole 0.99 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

K’alyáan Pole 1.03 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Russian Memorial 1.07 1
Other, Unclassified Objects, Interesting Places, Historic Object

EagleQuest Ministries 1.13 1
Religion, Other Temples, Interesting Places

CG-6017 1.13 1
Historic, Monuments And Memorials, Interesting Places, Monuments

Sitka Lighthouse 1.16 1
Accomodations, Lighthouses, Interesting Places, Architecture, Apartments

Tuberculosis Crematorium (Historical) 1.3 1
Architecture, Historic Architecture, Interesting Places, Destroyed Objects

Gavan Viewpoint 1.53 1
View Points, Other, Interesting Places

Grace Harbor Church 1.6 1
Religion, Churches, Interesting Places, Other Churches

Gun or Instrument Mount 1.61 1
Architecture, Historic Architecture, Interesting Places, Destroyed Objects