Donation of Hummel Vault to the Idaho State Archives
Over the past 128 years, Hummel Architects has forged a strong reputation in designing a variety of facilities, including educational, university, government, municipal, healthcare, and corporate buildings. Hummel Architects, a leading architecture firm committed to preserving heritage and promoting community engagement, announces the donation of its comprehensive archives to the Idaho State Archives. Included in […]
Cecil Jones’ Architectural Renderings
Today’s #TBT is a look back at the art of architectural renderings from Cecil Jones from the 1930s. These five illustrations were created to provide clients, stakeholders, and donors a look at a proposed or conceptual building yet to be built. The internal draftsmen of Tourtellotte & Hummel would design the buildings and then hire outside illustrators […]
New Leadership Structure
Scott Straubhar, AIA, NCARB – Partner Ed Daniels, AIA, NCARB – Partner Mandy Baom, NCIDQ, AIA – Principal Zacharia Lester, AIA, NCARB – Principal Brian Coleman, AIA, NCARB – Senior Associate Brian Riopelle, AIA, NCARB – Senior Associate Rob Beusan, AIA, NCARB – Senior Associate Gwen Andrews – Associate Hummel Architects announces the restructuring of […]
Donation of the Capitol Drawings
Hummel Architects is proud to announce that we have made a donation of more than 100 original Capitol drawings and paintings to the Idaho State Archives, a division of the Idaho State Historical Society. The collection includes original 1911 hand-drawn Idaho State Capitol architectural/structural plans; project files for woodwork, plumbing, and electrical; and a series […]
The Mode Building
The Mode Building stands at the north corner of 8th and Idaho in downtown Boise, Idaho. Completed in 1895, the building housed the Mode, Ltd., a high-end department store until 1991 when the store closed. Predecessor firm, Hummel, Hummel & Jones was hired in 1958 to rebuild and remodel the building after a fire destroyed […]
Flying the Friendly Skies
The Boise Municipal Airport as it looked in the 1950s. Note the complete lack of security, metal detectors, barriers, etc. … but plenty of ashtrays. Since commercial airfare was relatively new, airports were modeled after train and bus stations. Prior to 1969 the airport didn’t have a concourse, so passengers (and non-passengers) would walk directly […]
Tourtellotte, the building, not the man
From our Boise office, you can look down and see a whimsically painted yellow building with coral-colored pilasters and a colorful frieze of swags and discs. Home to @RepopGifts, @LemonTreeBoise, and other businesses, this downtown Boise building is a “one-story stucco reinforced concrete commercial building…at the intersection of Tenth and Bannock streets.“ The National Historic […]
The Grove, the heart of Downtown Boise
One of the quintessential Boise summertime events is to attend Alive After Five in The Grove. It is hard to imagine downtown Boise without this central gathering place. Hummel Architects originally designed the Grove Plaza in 1989 and it was renovated in 2018 by the CCDC and public-private partnerships. “The Grove works. It’s not the […]
Tally Ho at the Owyhee Motor Inn
The Owyhee Hotel (1109 W. Main Street, Boise) was designed by Tourtellotte and Hummel in 1909 as Boise’s second grand hotel. An ad in the Idaho Statesman claimed the Owyhee as the “most modern and complete commercial and tourist hotel between Chicago and San Francisco. But by the late 1950s, tourists traveling by automobile preferred […]
Pioneer Lodge
Pioneer Lodge at Bogus Basin was designed by Joseph LaMarche in 1973. These photos show the lodge while under construction before the exterior wood was stained. The architectural model hand-built to show how the building would interact with the mountain’s topography are also included. The last image is of the Bogus Creek Lodge as it […]