The Eldred Rock Lighthouse and Fort Seward Hospital Building were among eleven sites across the state named this year as Alaska’s most endangered historic properties.
Both buildings were constructed nearly 120 years ago and are undergoing restoration work.
Built in 1905, a few years after a steamship full of miners and gold ran aground and sank, the beacon on Eldred Rock, an island in the Lynn Canal 20 miles south of Haines, is the oldest…
