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(Message started by: georgej on Jan 3^rd, 2007, 7:33pm)

Title: Thought this was kinda cool. (Pic)
Post by georgej on Jan 3^rd, 2007, 7:33pm

Liz showed me this today, and I thought you all might like to see it.

It's a photo of a streetcar in front of the Union Block Building in downtown Boise, circa 1910.

The office for Liz's business is in the Union Block Building today, on the second floor. The building still looks the same. No more streetcars, though.

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r51/georgboise/75-65.jpg

Best,

George

Title: Re: Thought this was kinda cool. (Pic)
Post by TxBasslady on Jan 4^th, 2007, 12:17am

Kewl pic, George.

J

Title: Re: Thought this was kinda cool. (Pic)
Post by Kevin_M on Jan 4^th, 2007, 1:53am

(copied)

The Union Block was built in 1902 from sandstone quarried at nearby Table Rock. You could call it Boise's first "condo": Mayor Moses Alexander, Charles Clark, Jerry Lusk, Robert Nobel and Fort Boise Commandant Gen. John Green each owned one-fifth of the $35,000 building (a street-front bay plus the space above and below it).
The first business to move in was Capitol News and Printing Co., soon followed by grocery and paint stores, Boise Mercantile Co., Ltd., and The Second Hand Store.

What they're saying about Boise today! ;)

"Oasis for Retirees" -- Wall Street Journal, 2004

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1860

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assay office

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Because it was costly to ship gold to the U.S. Mint in San Francisco, a strong demand arose for either a federal mint or an assay office in Idaho. In 1869 Congress appropriated $75,000 to erect a building for a U.S. Assay Office in Boise.

Alexander Rossi, a Boise rancher, donated a dry plat of desert sagebrush for a building site. Now one of the most historic and important buildings in Idaho, the gray stone structure still stands on its own green block between Second and Third streets on Main, surrounded by noble trees and by a fence almost as old as the building.With its solitary building this is the only undeveloped block remaining in the original 1863 Boise City townsite.

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The "New Cellhouse" at the Old Idaho Penitentiary, ca. 1912. ISHS 68-57.61.

Idaho Territory was less than ten years old when the territorial prison was built east of Boise in 1870. The penitentiary grew from a single cellhouse into a complex of several distinctive buildings surrounded by a high sandstone wall. Convicts quarried the stone from the nearby ridges and completed all the later construction.

the Old Idaho Penitentiary was closed on December 3, 1973. After the Penitentiary closed in 1973, the site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Idaho Stone contributed to the Washington Monument, presented by the National Park Service.

Donor: The State of Idaho

Location: 400-Foot Level, West Wall, 38th Landing

Dimensions: 4 feet by 21 inches The granite insert is 36 inches by eleven inches.

Inscriptions: "Idaho. MCMXXVIII"

Material: Granite with bronze frame, designed by: Tourtellote and Hammel, Architects, Boise, Idaho. They were appointed by the governor.

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