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 […]
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 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 […]