Idaho Building (Boise, Idaho)
The Idaho Building in Boise, Idaho, is a 6-story, Second Renaissance Revival commercial structure designed by Chicago architect, Henry John Schlacks. (The National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Form lists Tourtellotte and Hummel as building designers, but "Tourtellotte may have been only a supervising architect...) Constructed for Boise City real estate developer Walter E. Pierce in 1910–11, the building represented local aspirations that Boise City would become another Chicago. The facade features brick pilasters above a ground floor stone base, separated by seven bays with large plate glass windows in each bay. Terracotta separates the floors, with ornamentation at the sixth floor below a denticulated cornice of galvanized iron.
Idaho Building | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
The Idaho Building in 2018 | |
| Location | Bannock and 8th Sts., Boise, Idaho |
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| Coordinates | 43°37′01″N 116°12′03″W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1910 |
| Built by | H. Ellenberger |
| Architect | Tourtellotte & Co. |
| Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Second Renaissance Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 78001033 |
| Added to NRHP | December 8, 1978 |
The building replaced Thompson's Livery barn at 8th and Bannock Streets. The Chicago firm of H. Ellenberger was responsible for construction, and the Idaho Statesman said of the building in 1911, "The architectural scheme is one of extreme simplicity, and the builder has given his work the appearance of massive solidity."
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places December 8, 1978.