Historical Buildings:
1901–1910
Buildings by Decade
This information is adapted from the Whitehorse Heritage Buildings Register compiled by Tony Zedda and Glenda Koh. The following list is grouped by decade.
Burns Building
Whitehorse Burns Building Architectural History: The Burns Meat Company came to the Yukon in 1898, when it was contracted to deliver beef to miners during the gold rush....
Cane House
The original building was a one-storey log structure with log sill foundation. It also had a frame hip roof, stucco exterior wall finish and asphalt roof shingles.
Captain Campbell House
This house was first owned by Dr. Frederick Warren Cane, postmaster, in 1906. The house was originally a small three room log cabin, to which a frame addition was soon attached…
Chambers House
Whitehorse Chambers House Architectural History: The building is a two-storey log structure with frame gable roof. The exterior has aluminum siding covering the log walls....
Chantler House
Whitehorse Chantler House Architectural History: The log house had a T-shaped plan and metal hip roof throughout except for a gable roof over the bay window in the front...
Chinery House
Whitehorse Chinery House Architectural History: It is a log structure with a gable roof covered in galvanized steel roofing. The exterior is wood siding and it has a hip...
Cyr House
Whitehorse Cyr House Architectural History: The building is a two storey squared log house with gable roof. A stucco finish covers the exterior along with a Tudor style...
Donnenworth House
Whitehorse Donnenworth House Architectural History: The house is a wood frame construction with hip and gable roofs. The structure has a long H-shaped plan. Ship lap wood...
Eldon House
This residence was previously owned by an individual with the surname Eldon. It is currently owned by Donald Miller.
Elliott House
This house originally stood on Front Street behind the Whitehorse Hotel (near the corner of Main) when it was first built in 1901. The next year, it was moved by its owner E.A. Dixon from a site behind the White Horse Hotel to 306 Steele Street, where it sat until April 1979.
Garside House
This house is believed to have been built around 1910 at the Whitehorse Copper Mine site and moved to its present location in the 1930s.
Grant House
This house was one of two identical houses, which were built on a single lot. The second house burned down in 1910, although its charred remains were left standing until 1930.
Harvey House
This lot was originally sold to a miner named Richard Harvey in 1903. The house is log, but likely began as a tent shack. The walls consist of log, covered with wood shingles, then covered with aluminum siding.
Homer House
The log house once located on Wood St. is thought to have been built sometime around 1910. The land was owned by Stephen Homer, a ship’s carpenter, who may have constructed the building himself.
Ike Taylor House
This house was built by Ike Taylor, partner to William Drury in the Taylor and Drury Stores. The house was built from logs which came from Five Finger Rapids on a White Pass scow in 1907, then covered over with lumber.
Klondike Airways Building
This building appears as a wood frame building in a 1906 photo. It is located on a site previously occupied by a tent frame bakery. The building was later covered in galvanized metal and used as a warehouse.
Langholtz Cabin & Fox Pens
This log structure originally occupied a site in the first block of Strickland Street, near the present location of the Carpenter Union Hall, (106 Strickland St).
McKinnon House
This home was originally a log cabin when it was first built in 1901 by Angus D. McKinnon. A tent shack was added to the back, which was later framed in. The house has undergone several renovations including the addition of “Whitehorse’s first bathroom.”
McPherson House
The house was built in 1907-08 by Daniel McAulay, a local carpenter and contractor. It was later occupied by Frank Slavin, better known as “The Sydney Cornstalk” and “Sydney Slasher”, the once famous boxer and heavyweight boxing champion of the British Empire.
Miller House
This structure was built by the U.S. Army during WWII and used as a float plane base office alongside a float plane dock and a windsock pole.