Yukon Hotel
Yukon Hotel | |
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Former names | Binet Block, Freeman Hotel, Miner's Rest Hotel |
General information | |
Type | Hotel |
Town or city | Dawson City, Yukon |
Country | Canada |
Coordinates | 64°03′33″N 139°26′18″W / 64.0591°N 139.4383°W |
Completed | 1898 |
Owner | Eldorado Hotel |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 2 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | J.E. Binet |
Website | |
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Official name | Yukon Hotel National Historic Site of Canada |
Designated | 12 June 1982 |
The Yukon Hotel is a
.The building was constructed during the Klondike Gold Rush[3] in 1898 by J.E. Binet, who named it Binet Block. A local entrepreneur, he and his brother J.O. Binet also operated Malden House, the Marconi Hotel, and Binet Brothers Saloon,[4] and the Binet Bros. Hotel and General Merchants in Mayo. He and his workers used available materials, rushing to complete it by November.[5] The narrow building had large street-level windows flanking the main entrance. Only the facade was made of milled lumber, as it was in short supply; the remainder of the building was made of "rough logs chinked with mud".[6]
It was leased to the Government of Canada for $1000 per month,[7] which used it for the office of the Commissioner of Yukon, William Ogilvie, for land and timber agent offices, the territorial registrar, and as living quarters for the staff. [8] In November 1900, the government relocated its offices to the post office, newly constructed at the corner of Third Street and King Street. [9][10] Binet then operated the building as a residence.
The building then changed ownership many times. Henry Freeman bought Binet Block in 1909 and operated it as the Miner's Rest Hotel.[11] In 1913, Minnie Witmore renamed it the Freeman Hotel.[12] The building was purchased by hotelier Emma Wilson in 1933, whose adjacent hotel was destroyed by fire.[13] She renamed it the Yukon Hotel[14][15] after a previous but no longer existing hotel[16] operated by James Booge from 1898 to 1902 and John Borland from 1903 to 1907.[17] Wilson operated the hotel until 1957, after which it was boarded up.[18][19]
It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada on 12 June 1982, and a commemorative plaque is installed on a large rock adjacent to the building.
See also
Notes
- ^ Yukon Hotel. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
- ^ Parks Canada
- ^ Heritage Canada Foundation
- ^ Benice: 2010. Page 314.
- ^ Heritage Canada Foundation: Yukon Hotel
- ^ Heritage Canada Foundation: Yukon Hotel
- ^ Heritage Canada Foundation
- ^ Eldorado Hotel
- ^ Eldorado Hotel
- ^ Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture
- ^ Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture
- ^ Eldorado Hotel
- ^ Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture
- ^ Heritage Canada Foundation
- ^ Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture
- ^ Eldorado Hotel
- ^ Benice: 2010. Page 314.
- ^ Parks Canada
- ^ Heritage Canada Foundation: Yukon Hotel
- ^ Heritage Canada Foundation: Yukon Hotel
- ^ Heritage Canada Foundation
- ^ Eldorado Hotel
- ^ Heritage Canada Foundation
- ^ Parks Canada
- ^ Parks Canada
- ^ Parks Canada (Dawson Complex)
References
- Benice, Ronald J. (2010). Alaska and Yukon Tokens: Private Coins of the Territories (3 ed.). ISBN 9780786444816.
- "The Yukon Hotel". Eldorado Hotel. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
- "Yukon Hotel". Heritage Canada Foundation. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
- "Yukon Hotel, Dawson City, Yukon Territory" (PDF). Heritage Canada Foundation. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
- "Yukon Hotel National Historic Site of Canada". Parks Canada. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
- "Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Site of Canada". Parks Canada. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
- "South Dawson City Walking Tour" (PDF). Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture. 8 February 2023.