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2012 Haines Visitor's Guide
Walking Tour
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his walking tour is 1.6 miles long. It covers nearly level ground and lasts between 45 minutes and 1.5 hours.
Farther along on your right is the Pryor Building, whose cement blocks were mixed by hand in a converted 55-gallon oil drum. The structure, which now houses a coffee Begin at the Sheldon Museum shop downstairs and Our downtown has a fractured history. offices upstairs, was If you're on Main Street, facing the water, completed in 1923. buildings on the north or left side of the The building street make up the oldest part of town, next door, now the several dating back to the turn of the 20th Fogcutter Bar, was century. Property on the right side of Main built in 1923 as a was held by the Presbyterian Church and hardware store, and went largely undeveloped until the 1960s. also served as a gas The Sheldon Museum and Cultural station. Center started as Steve Sheldon’s private The four-story collection of artifacts and memorabilia The Haines Small Boat Harbor along Front Street. Photo © Andy Hedden building next door to of the area more than 80 years ago. The the Fogcutter is the current building opened in 1979. Today, Chisel Building. It is Haines’ tallest the facility is nationally accredited and Next door is the O’Dell-Tagg House, your left. Now a private residence, it was building and was completed in 1916. Joe houses a fascinating collection of Native now a private residence. Built in 1912, reportedly a carpentry shop in Skagway, art, Gold Rush mementos, and stories from Chisel, a business and civic leader, built it was hailed at the time as “one of the when George Washington Hinchman had the trail days of Jack Dalton. Ask to see the it himself mixing cement and carrying it prettiest homes in Haines, and one to be the building dismantled and shipped to on improvised ramps. The building first glass beads from King Tut's tomb. proud of,” by the Haines Pioneer Press. Haines, then reassembled. He is reported to served Haines as a hotel with backroom Go west up Main Street have paid only $12 for the building site and Turn left onto Union Street gambling facilities. Rooms rented for Across from the museum is King’s Store. two adjacent lots. On your left just past the Assembly $3.50 per day. This building, completed in 1903, has of God Church, is the Lindholm House, See WALK page 11 Turn right on Second Avenue served as a hardware, drug store, restaurant built in 1912. Charles August Lindholm, As you go up the and post office. a Swede, arrived in Haines at the end of hill, the red Pioneer It was owned the gold rush. His wife, Hilda Augusta, Bar and Bamboo by George moved here after their marriage in San Room Restaurant Vogel, the first Francisco. Lindholm was a cabinetmaker are on your left. The mayor after and independent carpenter; his wife sold Pioneer Bar began Haines was baked goods and worked as a midwife. Thai Donuts, Pastries & as Tom Valeur’s incorporated as Turn left on Third Avenue, Breads fresh daily Lunch & Homemade Pie Hotel de France, a a city Jan. 24, continue to Dalton Street, “first-class rooming 1910. then turn right Dinner Full Espresso Bar house.” Ads in the Continuing Haines' Catholic Church is on your 1907 Haines Pioneer left.The street it's on is named for Jack uphill, you Open 7 am to 3 pm Press mentioned will have an Closed Sunday Dalton, a turn of the century businessman, the hotel’s authentic excellent view trader and general entrepreneur. Dalton Tues, Fri & Sat, 4:30 - 8 pm A photo mural on the side of its French cuisine. For of the Chilkat Dine In or Take Out was responsible for developing a trail from building shows the early days of the more than 40 years, Mountains to tidewater in Haines to Champagne in the it has been operated your left. They Pioneer Bar. Photo © John S. Hagen Yukon. The trade route was known as the by the Tengs family range in height Dalton Trail. 5th & Dalton as a bar and restaurant. to 6,500 feet. Visible from where you The Hinchman-Brouillette House is on behind Miles Furniture (907)766-3653 The Old City Hall and Fire Station are are standing are the spectacular spires of on your right. This building, now home to the “Cathedral Peaks” (Mt. Emmerich) Bell's Store, was one of Haines’ many city northwest of Haines. The area's landforms, Glacier Bay Flightseeing & Charter Flights halls and served until 1977. including the Chilkat River Valley and Lynn Canal, were carved by glaciers Taking visitors Continue up Second Avenue 15,000 years ago. To your left, the Summer Inn Bed and and locals The next building isn't historic, although Breakfast is the Vogel-Lammers House. where they its contents are. The Hammer Museum Tim Vogel, who built the house, was a don’t belong features more than 1,800 pounding notorious entrepreneur and former member implements from prehistory to the present since 1992 of Soapy Smith’s Skagway gang. He day. The collection tells the story of trades built the Haines Packing Co. cannery at 132 2nd Avenue - Haines, Alaska and tools little remembered from days past. Letnikof Cove in 1917. 3 doors south
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