28-719: Lee House may refer to: United States [ edit ] Alaska [ edit ] Jesse Lee Home for Children , Seward, Alaska, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Kenai Peninsula Borough Arkansas [ edit ] Carl and Esther Lee House , Damascus, Arkansas, listed on the NRHP in Van Buren County R.E. Lee House , Pine Bluff, Arkansas, listed on
56-597: A boarding school, was called the Jesse Lee Home, named after a Methodist minister in the US northeast during colonial days. In the late 1910s and early 1920s, the Spanish flu pandemic was particularly deadly in remote Native villages, leaving more displaced children. The old missions were overfilled, in disrepair, and transportation of supplies and children to these remote locations was unreliable and expensive. Seward
84-517: A competition to design the territorial flag. His design is still in use as the state flag . Benson, who was moved from the previous home in Unalaska, was from the village of Chignik . He was a 13-year-old student who won the competition out of over 700 entries. Fanny Kearns, a young Eskimo woman who was employed as a seamstress at the JLH sewed the first Alaskan flag out of leftover cloth. On July 9, 1927,
112-548: The Balto Building was dedicated and the new flag was raised for the first time at the Jesse Lee Home. The date is still commemorated in the state as Alaska Flag Day. On July 4, 1928, another Chignik boy, Ephriam Kalmakoff, at 14 years old won Seward's Mount Marathon Race , a mountain foot race above Seward that stood until 1957. He remains the youngest race champion. Another Aleut student at Jesse Lee Home, Peter Gordon Gould from Unga Island overlapped with Benny Benson when
140-533: The Balto School would use the building, prosecuting A&E, and renovating the portions of the Jesse Lee Home that were still standing. By 2015, and after $ 700,000 in expenses, the grants were terminated due accountability and reporting issues. In 2014 the City of Seward transferred ownership to Friends of the Jesse Lee Home (FJLH) under the conditions that FJLH had five years to remove hazardous materials from
168-780: The James Lee Memorial , Memphis, Tennessee, listed on the NRHP in Shelby County Texas [ edit ] Walter J. Lee House , Belton, Texas, listed on the NRHP in Bell County Link-Lee House , Houston, Texas, listed on the NRHP in Harris County Utah [ edit ] John Ruphard Lee House , Beaver, Utah, listed on the NRHP in Beaver County John E. Lee House , Hyde Park, Utah, listed on
196-513: The Jesse Lee Home, a nonprofit organization, was set up with the goal of restoring the site. Once restored, the Jesse Lee Home was to be used as a public statewide leadership charter high school. In 2002, the Alaska State Legislature passed House Bill No. 96, "An Act relating to acquisition and development of the Jesse Lee Home; and providing for an effective date." In 2003, a Department of Natural Resources study found that
224-765: The NRHP West Virginia [ edit ] Mattie V. Lee Home , Charleston, West Virginia, NRHP-listed Lee-Longsworth House , Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, NRHP-listed Lee-Throckmorton-McDonald House , Inwood, West Virginia, listed on the NRHP in Berkeley County Lighthorse Harry Lee Cabin , Mathias, West Virginia, listed on the NRHP in Hardy County See also [ edit ] James Lee House (disambiguation) Lee Hall (disambiguation) Fong Lee Company , Oroville, California, listed on
252-653: The NRHP in Butte County Don Lee Building , San Francisco, California, listed on the NRHP in San Francisco Lee Hotel , Yuma, Arizona, listed on the NRHP in Yuma County Robert E. Lee Hotel (disambiguation) Robert E. Lee Monument (disambiguation) Robert E. Lee School (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
280-831: The NRHP in Cache County Charles W. and Leah Lee House , Torrey, Utah, listed on the NRHP in Wayne County Vermont [ edit ] Lee Farm , Waterford, Vermont, listed on the NRHP in Caledonia County Virginia [ edit ] Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial , Arlington, Virginia, also known as Custis-Lee Mansion, NRHP-listed Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home , Alexandria, Virginia, NRHP-listed Lee-Fendall House , Alexandria, Virginia, NRHP-listed Lee Hall Mansion , Newport News, Virginia, NRHP-listed Stewart-Lee House , Richmond, Virginia, listed on
308-933: The NRHP in Clarke County Lee-Dubard House , Grenada, Mississippi, listed on the NRHP in Grenada County Montana [ edit ] Lee Homestead , Decker, Montana, listed on the NRHP in Big Horn County Johnson-Lee House , Kalispell, Montana, listed on the NRHP in Flathead County Nebraska [ edit ] George F. Lee Octagon Houses , Nebraska City, Nebraska, NRHP-listed New Jersey [ edit ] Stokes–Lee House , Collingswood, New Jersey, NRHP-listed North Carolina [ edit ] Gen. William C. Lee House , Dunn, North Carolina, listed on
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#1732775506109336-854: The NRHP in Harnett County Lovett Lee House , Giddensville, North Carolina, listed on the NRHP in Sampson County Harry Fitzhugh Lee House , Goldsboro, North Carolina, listed on the NRHP in Wayne County Jones-Lee House , Greenville, North Carolina, listed on the NRHP in Pitt County William H. Lee House , Lewiston, North Carolina, listed on the NRHP in Bertie County Malcolm K. Lee House , Monroe, North Carolina, listed on
364-819: The NRHP in Jefferson County Lee House (Maysville, Kentucky) , NRHP-listed Massachusetts [ edit ] Hooper-Lee Nichols House , Cambridge, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed Jeremiah Lee House , Marblehead, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed Michigan [ edit ] John and Rosetta Lee House , Lapeer, Michigan, listed on the NRHP in Lapeer County Minnesota [ edit ] Olaf Lee House , St. Paul, Minnesota, NRHP-listed Mississippi [ edit ] Lee House (Batesville, Mississippi) , NRHP-listed S. D. Lee House , Columbus, Mississippi, NRHP-listed Lee-Mitts House , Enterprise, Mississippi, listed on
392-714: The NRHP in Jefferson County Connecticut [ edit ] Thomas Lee House , East Lyme, Connecticut, NRHP-listed in New London County Daniel and Mary Lee House , Portland, Connecticut, listed on the NRHP in Middlesex County Georgia [ edit ] Gordon-Lee House , Chickamauga, Georgia, listed on the NRHP in Walker County Lee and Gordon Mill , Chickamauga, Georgia, listed on
420-801: The NRHP in Pittsburg County Oregon [ edit ] Dr. Norman L. Lee House , Junction City, Oregon, listed on the NRHP in Pittsburg County Jason Lee House , Salem, Oregon, listed on the NRHP in Lane County Tennessee [ edit ] Samuel B. Lee House , Duplex, Tennessee, listed on the NRHP in Williamson County James Lee House (239 Adams Avenue, Memphis) in Tennessee, listed on
448-759: The NRHP in Shelby County James Lee House (690 Adams Avenue, Memphis) , Tennessee, also known as the Harsson-Goyer-Lee House and operated as a business called "James Lee House," listed on the NRHP Lt. George W. Lee House , Memphis, Tennessee, listed on the NRHP in Shelby County Lt. George W. Lee House , Memphis, Tennessee, listed on the NRHP in Shelby County Lee and Fontaine Houses of
476-747: The NRHP in Union County James H. Lee House in the Monroe Residential Historic District (Monroe, North Carolina) Heck-Lee, Heck-Wynne, and Heck-Pool Houses , Raleigh, North Carolina, listed on the NRHP in Wake County Ohio [ edit ] Samuel Lee House , Coshocton, Ohio, listed on the NRHP in Coshocton County Oklahoma [ edit ] Jeff Lee Park Bath House and Pool , McAlester, Oklahoma, listed on
504-1075: The NRHP in Walker County Agnes Lee Chapter House of the United Daughters of the Confederacy , Decatur, Georgia, listed on the NRHP in DeKalb County W. G. Lee Alumni House , Macon, Georgia, listed on the NRHP in Bibb County Idaho [ edit ] J.O. Lee House , Jerome, Idaho, listed on the NRHP in Jerome County J.O. Lee Honey House , Jerome, Idaho, listed on the NRHP in Jerome County Iowa [ edit ] Lee House (Independence, Iowa) , NRHP-listed Kentucky [ edit ] Addison W. Lee House , Louisville, Kentucky, listed on
532-574: The building was structurally sound. In 2008, the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development awarded the Alaska Community Foundation a $ 1,000,000 grant to repair and stabilize the Jesse Lee Home. The Friends of the Jesse Lee Home was named the entity responsible for the ongoing operation and maintenance of the project. The State of Alaska appropriated a total of $ 8,000,000 towards developing how
560-624: The complex. Goode Hall, the largest of the buildings, was heavily damaged and required demolition. The church opened a new orphanage in Anchorage and the Seward home was closed. In 1966 the property was sold to the city, then to a series of private owners before being foreclosed upon due to unpaid utility district assessments by the City of Seward again. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The Friends of
588-550: The residents were moved to other locations. The primary buildings were painted camouflage and a temporary Fort Raymond Army Base occupied part of the home's property. The home reopened after the war but rather than attending class there, the students attended nearby Bayview Elementary and Seward High School , and government-provided food replaced the gardens and livestock that filled the 100+ acres. The number of residents declined from its high of 120 to between 30 and 40. An earthquake in 1964 severely affected Seward and much of
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#1732775506109616-401: The school first moved from Unalaska. Gould would go on to found Alaska Methodist University in Anchorage, now Alaska Pacific University , as its first president attended in 1960. The site consisted of three main buildings connected by arcades and several smaller buildings. Original construction included two dormitories , Jewel Guard Hall and Goode Hall. The Balto Building was added between
644-573: The site, install 270 feet of water line and install 220 feet of sewer line. As of August 30, 2019 FJLH admitted "not a significant amount" of money had been spent on these features and the conditions for FLJH retain ownership were not met. In July 2020 the Seward City Council voted to demolish the structure. Demolition of the site began Nov. 4, 2020. Lee House (Batesville, Mississippi) Lee House in Batesville, Mississippi
672-497: The title Lee House . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lee_House&oldid=1231680194 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jesse Lee Home for Children The Jesse Lee Home for Children
700-428: The two dormitories and provided dining space and a large kitchens. In addition to boy's dormitories, Jewel Guard Hall held a shop, vocational classrooms , a darkroom , classrooms, library, and gymnasium. Goode Hall served as the girl's dormitory and administrative offices. Additional buildings on the property included a superintendent's house, barn, schoolhouse, residence, garage, and cold storage. During World War II ,
728-757: Was a former home for displaced children on Swetmann Avenue in Seward , Alaska , United States . It was operated by the United Methodist Church from its opening in 1926 until the building suffered damage from a 1964 earthquake and operations were relocated to a new building in Anchorage . Prior to 1926, the Methodist Church operated children's homes in Nome and Unalaska . The facility at Unalaska, established in 1889 and also functioning as
756-470: Was built in 1888. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was deemed significant as it is "the only Andrew Johnson residence in Batesville and is an excellent example of his ornamented L-shape cottage style." It is a one-story ornamented cottage with a three-bay gallery with an intricate balustrade . It has irregular massing and fenestration, and a steep roof which
784-471: Was selected as a new location because at that point in time, it was Alaska's largest port and transportation point. Transportation costs would be lower due to regularly scheduled routes directly from Seattle . Residents were mainly Native children from the Aleutian Islands ( Aleut ) and Seward Peninsula ( Iñupiat ). In the first year after the school opened in 1926, resident Benny Benson won
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