Idaho Building | |
Location | Bannock and 8th Sts., Boise, Idaho |
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Coordinates | 43°37′01″N 116°12′03″W / 43.61694°N 116.20083°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[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 8, 1978 |
The Idaho Building in Boise, Idaho, is a 6-story, Second Renaissance Revival commercial structure designed by Chicago architect, Henry John Schlacks.[2] (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...[3]) 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.[4]
The building replaced Thompson's Livery barn at 8th and Bannock Streets.[5] The Chicago firm of H. Ellenberger was responsible for construction,[6] 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."[7]
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places December 8, 1978.[4]
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