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The Yukon Hotel is a National Historic Site of Canada and part of the Dawson Historical Complex. It is a log building with a three-storey false facade〔Parks Canada〕 on First Avenue at the corner of Church Street in Dawson City, Yukon. The building was constructed during the Klondike Gold Rush〔Heritage Canada Foundation〕 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,〔Benice: 2010. Page 314.〕 and the Binet Bros. Hotel and General Merchants in Mayo. He and his workers used available materials, rushing to complete it by November.〔Heritage Canada Foundation: Yukon Hotel〕 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".〔Heritage Canada Foundation: Yukon Hotel〕 It was leased to the Government of Canada for $1000 per month,〔Heritage Canada Foundation〕 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. 〔Eldorado Hotel〕 In November 1900, the government relocated its offices to the post office, newly constructed at the corner of Third Street and King Street. 〔Eldorado Hotel〕〔Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture〕 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''.〔Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture〕 In 1913, Minnie Witmore renamed it the ''Freeman Hotel''.〔Eldorado Hotel〕 The building was purchased by hotelier Emma Wilson in 1933, whose adjacent hotel was destroyed by fire.〔Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture〕 She renamed it the ''Yukon Hotel''〔Heritage Canada Foundation〕〔Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture〕 after a previous but no longer existing hotel〔Eldorado Hotel〕 operated by James Booge from 1898 to 1902 and John Borland from 1903 to 1907.〔Benice: 2010. Page 314.〕 Wilson operated the hotel until 1957, after which it was boarded up.〔Parks Canada〕〔Heritage Canada Foundation: Yukon Hotel〕 Pierre Berton and other Dawson City natives urged the Government of Canada to save and restore the structure.〔Heritage Canada Foundation: Yukon Hotel〕 In 1975, the Heritage Canada Foundation purchased the "vacant and decaying" building for $1, and by 1980 had spent $386,000 to renovate it.〔Heritage Canada Foundation〕 In 1983 the foundation sold the building, and in 1985, innkeeper and operator of the Eldorado Hotel, Peter Jenkins, purchased it.〔Eldorado Hotel〕〔Heritage Canada Foundation〕 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.〔Parks Canada〕 It was selected based on its "representation of typical commercial structures built at the height" of the Klondike Gold Rush, such as siting flush to the sidewalk, roof pitch, three-storey false facade, and log construction.〔Parks Canada〕 It forms part of the Dawson Historical Complex with other frontier buildings identified by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, including the adjacent St. Paul’s Anglican Church, the Bank of British North America building, and the Carnegie Library.〔Parks Canada (Dawson Complex)〕 ==See also== *List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Yukon 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yukon Hotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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