Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 77000226 Added to NRHP 16 December 1977 | Built 1916 (1916) Opened 1916 | |
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Location 1 Maksoutoff St., Sitka, Alaska Similar Mount Verstovia, Mount Edgecumbe, Peril Strait, Sheldon Jackson College, Blue Lake | ||
The W.P. Mills House is a historic house at 1 Maksoutoff Street in Sitka, Alaska. It occupies a prominent site in Sitka, located on a small island in the harbor at the end of a 400-foot (120 m) causeway. The house is located on the site where, during the Russian period in the early nineteenth century, a salt-making operation was located. In 1915, W. P. Mills, son of one of the former American owners of the saltery after the Alaska Purchase, hired Seattle-based architect Louis B. Mendal to design a house to stand on the old saltery's foundation. The design, which used the foundation as well as the massive wooden door of the saltery, adapted the foundation to provide a sheltered and private courtyard space, and to take advantage of the expansive views available.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.