20 Creek Street

For half a century, this house was part of Ketchikan’s notorious red light district on Creek Street. Its most infamous resident was Beatrice Greene, who began to ply her trade here in 1947. In 1954, when authorities ended open prostitution on Creek Street, most of the women left town, retired, or moved to other neighborhoods, but a few, including Beatrice Greene, continued underground. After the crackdown, she played a cat-and-mouse game with local police, entertaining gentlemen callers when she thought she could get away with it and lying low when the heat was on.

Saxman, Alaska · United States