Fort Street Historic District

Fort Street Historic District
Carnegie Library
Fort Street Historic District is located in Idaho
Fort Street Historic District
Fort Street Historic District is located in the United States
Fort Street Historic District
LocationFort St., State St., 4th St., 16th St.
Boise, Idaho
Coordinates43°37′20″N 116°12′00″W / 43.62222°N 116.20000°W / 43.62222; -116.20000
Area102 acres
Built1890-1940
Architectural styleQueen Anne
Colonial Revival
Art Deco
American Foursquare
Bungalow
NRHP reference No.82000199[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 12, 1982

The Fort Street Historic District in Boise, Idaho, contains roughly 47 blocks located within the 1867 plat of Boise City. The irregular shape of the district is roughly bounded on the north by West Fort Street and on the south by West State Street. The west boundary is North 16th Street, and the east boundary is roughly North 5th Street.

When the nomination form was prepared in 1982 for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), the district contained 318 buildings. The inventory consisted mostly of houses, but schools, churches, and commercial structures were included. Many structures were designed by Tourtellotte & Hummel, and some were designed by Wayland & Fennell.[2] The district contains many sites with individual NRHP listing, and the Boise High School Campus and the St. John's Cathedral Block both are separately listed and contain multiple structures within the larger Fort Street Historic District. The district is itself contained within a larger area known locally as Boise's North End Preservation District, although the North End includes other NRHP listed historic districts.[3]

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Susanne Lichtenstein (September 29, 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fort Street Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
  3. ^ "Boise's Historic Preservation Districts". City of Boise. Retrieved September 2, 2018.