E of Tanana, Tanana, Alaska. County/parish: Yukon-Koyukuk.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 03, 1977. NRIS 77000230.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing site.Also known as:
The Tanana Mission (also known as Mission of Our Saviour; Episcopal Mission) was a historic Episcopal church mission in Tanana, Alaska. Its abandoned church building and cemetery are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
It was deemed significant as a site preserving artifacts of the once-large Episcopal mission, which additionally included a hospital, a sawmill, a rectory, and a school. The site is located about 3 miles up from the current Tanana village location. It was deemed "important to the history of interior Alaska as a place where permanent native (Indian) community was established near the mission which located itself opposite the prehistoric trading center of many interior Athapaskan Indians - Nuchalawoyya" and also as representing "a place where native people learned and participated in the activities of a foreign culture", and as a burial site, and as for the architecture of its church.
The church building has multiple gables above a 52-by-48-foot (16 m × 15 m) plan. It was built in 1899 and added to the National Register in 1977.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75325865