Dolly's House

This house was the home of Dolly Arthur, Ketchikan’s most famous sporting woman, and from 1919 through the 1940s it was also her place of business. Dolly, whose given name was Thelma Copeland, had already practiced her trade in Vancouver, Juneau, Petersburg, and at the other end of Creek Street before she finally settled at #24. She lived in the house until 1973, when ill health and failing eyesight required her to move into a nursing home. Shortly before her death at age eighty-eight, looking back on her career, she said that men thought she was fun and attractive, that she always seemed to have more friends than the other girls on Creek Street, that she could never get along with other girls, and that she never had any trouble getting along with men.

Saxman, Alaska · United States