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  • History of Front & Broad Street

     From Victorian opulence to lumber yards, the block of 5th Street between Front and Broad Streets is a stellar example of how neighborhoods can change and be reborn. Read Article

  • Boise's Anniversary

     During the summer of 1863, Boise was laid out in ten blocks with twenty lots. This is the story of what happened before and immediately after. Read Article

  • Front Street between 5th & 6th

     Front Street between 5th & 6th Streets was a neighborhood for laborers, widows, and women, as well as artists before it became a place for warehouses using the railroad. Read Article

  • Woolgrower in the North End

     Many historic houses in Boise have changed over time when old families move out and new families in, and in some cases they are converted from single family homes to apartment buildings. The apartment building at 1815 N. 10th Street has seen all of these changes and then some. Read Article

  • History of Midcentury Architecture in Boise

     The Bench District in Boise really flourished after the Second Great War. What had once been sagebrush and overland trails would later come to host homesteaders who settled along the canal works in the early 1900s. Today those farmhouses are lost in the sea of middle-class expansion. Read Article

  • History of the Natatorium

     In 1901 the Natatorium, a hot spring plunge located off East Warm Springs Avenue, was chosen to host Idaho's very first Inaugural Governor's Ball for Governor Frank Hunt. Read Article

  • History of Sergeant City

     The establishment of Gowen Field as a military air field in 1940 brought thousands of men, women, and children into the Boise Valley. The growth of Gowen Field created a demand for more housing which drove expansion on the Bench and created Sargent City. Read Article

  • Basque Boarding Houses

     Political tension in the homeland encouraged Basque migration to the United States, and to Boise, in the 19th century. At the turn of the century successful Basque laborers began investing their earnings in ways that met their fellow countryman's needs in an unfamiliar place. Read Article

  • Remnants of Boise: 150 Years

     For the month of April the Boise City Department of Arts and History Sesqui-Shop hosted Remnants of Boise, an exhibit by Boise historian Brandi Burns, celebrating 150 years of Boise history through the themes of Environment, Community, and Enterprise. Read Article
 
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