Tournverein Building
The Tournverein (pronounced toorn-fiar-ine) is a red brick building in Old Boise at 6th & Main Street in Boise with a generous row of windows all framed with light-colored brick.” Commissioned in 1904, the building had a 400-seat ground-floor auditorium with a 200-seat balcony. It also had a gym with indoor showers, a parlor for […]
Wellman Apartments
Throughout Boise’s history, the need for affordable housing near the downtown core has always been a constant. Throughout our 125 year history, Hummel has designed many multi-family apartments that continue to house workers, students, and families. The Wellman Apartments at 5th & Washington Street in downtown Boise “offered accommodations to single persons in individual efficiency […]
C. H. Waymire Building
The C H Waymire Building located in Hyde Park in Boise (1521 13th Street) is another humble, everyday building from Hummel’s 125 Year history that continues to have a life 112 years after construction. The Waymire block was finished in 1909 to house a grocery store with the owner’s apartment upstairs. Similar to the Rosedale […]
Rosedale Odd Fellows Temple
Throughout our 125-year history, Hummel Architects has designed memorable landmark buildings in the Treasure Valley, including the Idaho State Capitol Building. But our lineage also includes smaller projects that are still used daily as commercial, residential, and religious facilities—buildings that are woven into the fabric of everyday life. The Rosedale Odd Fellows Hall at 1755 […]
Elks Building
For today’s #TBT we feature the Elks Temple, or Elks Building located at the corner of 9th & Jefferson in downtown Boise. “The Elks Temple is a four-story brick building in a modified Italian palazzo style. It is five bays wide and distinguished by its Boise sandstone trim and large cornice with geometric decorative elements that seem […]
Hotel Boise | Hoff Building
Today we #TBT to one of Boise’s most distinctive landmarks, the art deco Hoff Building (formerly known as the Hotel Boise). Once the tallest building in Idaho, the Hoff has held a distinctive place on the Boise skyline since 1930. “Boise’s premier land developer, Walter E. Pierce, build Hotel Boise, which was completed in 1930. It sat […]
805 Idaho Building
Today’s #tbt look back at some of the projects in Hummel’s 125-year history is the 805 Idaho building. Architect, James King designed the original bank section of this rusticated stone version of the Romanesque revival style in 1890. In the following decade, Tourtellotte & Hummel designed the fourth-floor addition and the extension westward on Idaho Street, giving […]
Boise Public Library
In 1972, Hummel Architects was hired to remodel the Salt Lake Hardware warehouse into a new library for the City of Boise. For the city, purchasing and renovating the Salt Lake Hardware building was more cost-effective than renovating the Library’s previous home at the Carnegie Public Library on Washington Street (another Hummel project). This adaptive […]
Overland/Eastman Building
For today’s #tbt, we look back to one of our buildings that did not survive to the 21st century. The Overland/Eastman Building once stood at 8th & Main Street in downtown Boise. The Overland Building (renamed the Eastman Building in 1927) was designed by Tourtelotte and Company on the site of the 1864 Overland House hotel. […]
Boise High School
Today’s #tbt post celebrating 125 years of Hummel projects is Boise High School in downtown Boise. In 1908, Boise School District hired Tourtellotte and Hummel “to add the first of many expansions, a white brick addition to the east side. In 1912, it added a white brick addition to the west side. In 1922, the district replaced […]