| Alaska Regional Office | U.S. Department of the Interior | |
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| Cultural Resources Team | National Park Service |
| National
Historic Landmarks in Alaska |
Sheldon
Jackson School,
Sitka |
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Sitka, Alaska |
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| National
Register Number: 72000193 Resource Type: District Property Type: Education - School Designated: August 7, 2001 |
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| The Sheldon Jackson
School is nationally significant for its important role in the education
of Native Alaskans during the first half of the twentieth century and in
the transformation of Southeast Native Alaskan cultures during this period.
Through education that emphasized English,students were taught to adopt
elements of Euro-American culture. Changes in Native Alaskan life were
also instigated by the removal of native students from their homes to the
school,and by the promotion of skills other than those used in traditional
Native occupations. The school also played an important although indirect
role,through its students,in the development of Native Alaskan political
organization and the pursuit of legal rights for Native Alaskans. Sheldon Jackson College received a Getty Campus Heritage Grant to develop a preservation plan for the Landmark and to record the buildings on the campus? historic quadrangle. The preservation plan and the Historic American Building Survey (HABS) drawings are expected to be finalized by the end of the year. The College has received considerable support from Volunteers in Mission and this summer several buildings were painted, trees trimmed and some structural stabilization work carried out. The preservation plan and HABS drawings are the first step to restore and rehabilitate the campus buildings, but years of deferred maintenance have taken their toll on several buildings and in particular the Laundry Plant and Tillie Paul Manor. The College needs to find funds to provide the necessary building repairs before the material integrity of the Landmark is seriously impacted. |
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