Hanlon-Osbakken House

Hanlon-Osbakken House. . , Built about 1895, the Hanlon-Qsbakken house is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was home to three generations of the Hanion-Osbakken family, who trace their roots in Sitka to early Russian American days. The family held the property 1873-1991., Frederick Richter originally purchased the lot in 1873, and shortly afterward was married to 16-year-old Anna Smackoff. Frederick died a few years later, leaving her with two small sons. Anna later married John Hanlon, and about 1895, Anna's brother-in-law William Sherigan built this Victorian Queen Anne style home for the Hanlon family. Local folklore claims that the house's yellow cedar planks were originally part of a local brewery which Frederick Richter once owned. Indoor plumbing and electric wiring were not part of the original construction, but were added later., After Anna's death, her daughter Margaret continued living in the house, and raised her own family here. Margaret's husband John Osbakken built the long addition at the rear of the home, which served as a boat-building shop, in the late 1940s. The Osbakkens sold the house to the Breedlove family in 1991, and it was lovingly restored in 1992-93., Photograph was taken about 1910. Left to right, it shows Zenia Hanlon (later Mrs. McGraw), Ike Hanlon, and Mrs. Anna Hanlon.