Yukon Register of Historic PlacesYRHP

• Materials and craftsmanship of both St. Luke’s and AMMC reflects functional vernacular northern construction techniques, particularly the use of local materials and hewn log construction.

• The AMMCs relatively small size, steep gable roof, and two-part construction consisting of a nave and (chancel) addition, constructed with different style and techniques, including:

- Nave primarily constructed using squared logs and lapped square notches;

- Bottom logs of nave constructed with round logs and saddle notches;

- Chancel addition constructed of round logs with bark left on and V style notching;

- Oakum chinking with mud daubing on both the navel and chancel

- Past evidence of a bell tower constructed and later removed

• Saint Luke’s comparatively larger massing, piece sur piece construction and increasingly complex building techniques, including:

- a bell tower with a metal clad steeple;

- exterior trim;

- distinctive fenestration including 6/6 windows, stained-glass inserts, triangular trim over the nave windows, and transom window above the door to the nave;

- two volume interior space created by the narthex and nave;

- panel and batten interior wall finishing;

• The relationship between the historic place and its broader setting, particularly the orientation of the churches facing and overlooking the Porcupine River, including unobstructed views both to and from the river.

• The churches siting on their original locations, and their close spatial and visual relationship to each other, central to the community and easy to access from all parts of town.

• The evidence of historic and continued use and reuse of the buildings by the people of Old Crow and the Anglican Church for community, social and religious purposes.