Sky Watch

The weather lately has been spectacular, so for my birthday, my husband and I took a stroll around town before he took me to lunch at The Hangar. We stopped along Seward Street to watch the clouds wisp over Mt. Juneau and the Gross 20th Century Movie Theatre (Juneau's first real movie theatre established in 1911).
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South Franklin Street

Now that tourist season has begun, and cruise ships are arriving daily, Juneau is starting to boom with pedestrian activity.

Governor's Mansion

The Governor’s Mansion (center of photo-white with a green roof) was built in 1912 and designed by James Knox Taylor, the supervising architect of the U.S. Treasury. Walter Eli Clark, Alaska’s district governor at the time was the first to live in the house. It has been remodeled and upgraded many times. From this view, you can see that it is surrounded by homes from both the original Juneau Town Site and the Casey Shattuck neighborhoods. Governor Sean Parnell currently resides here with his family.

Alaska State Capital

The marble used to construct the pillars in front of the Alaska State Capital is from Tokeen on Marble Island a small island off the west coast of Prince of Wales Island. Very little marble was returned to Alaska because of shipping costs, therefore, most of it was used in buildings throughout the northwest United States once it was sawed and polished at the Vermont Marble Company in Tacoma, Washington.

Front Street

A stroll along Front Street