Teller Mission Orphanage

Teller Mission Orphanage
Location Shelman Creek and Mission St., Brevig Mission, Alaska
Coordinates 65°20′0″N 166°28′59″W / 65.33333°N 166.48306°W / 65.33333; -166.48306Coordinates: 65°20′0″N 166°28′59″W / 65.33333°N 166.48306°W / 65.33333; -166.48306
Area less than one acre
Built 1917 (1917)
NRHP Reference # 01001117[1]
Added to NRHP October 21, 2001

The Teller Mission Orphanage is a historic orphanage and mission house on Mission Street in Brevig Mission, Alaska. This small community was established in 1891 as a station for the importation of reindeer from Siberia to supplement the diet of the local Alaska Native population. The reindeer station was taken over in 1900 by the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran church, which also undertook to operate a school and orphanage at the site. The present 1-1/2-story wood frame building was built in 1917, replacing the original orphanage built in 1907 by Rev. Toleef Larson Brevig, for whom the community is named. It is about 28 by 54 feet (8.5 m × 16.5 m), with a gable roof, weatherboard siding, and a metal roof. At the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, it had been standing vacant for about 20 years.[2]

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  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Teller Mission Orphanage" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-03-24.


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