Cable House and Station (original) (raw)
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United States historic place
| Cable House and Station | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| Alaska Heritage Resources Survey | |
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| Location | 2 Lincoln StreetSitka, Alaska |
| Coordinates | 57°02′55″N 135°20′21″W / 57.04866°N 135.33911°W / 57.04866; -135.33911 |
| Area | 1.76 acres (0.71 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 79000412[1] |
| AHRS No. | SIT-212 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | June 4, 1979 |
| Designated AHRS | October 12, 1977 |
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 m) 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.[2]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Cable House and Station". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
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