Mitchell Hotel

Historic building in Idaho, USA

United States historic place


Mitchell Hotel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The Mitchell Hotel in 1906
43°36′56″N 116°12′23″W / 43.61556°N 116.20639°W / 43.61556; -116.20639 (Mitchell Hotel)
Area	less than one acre
Built	1906 (1906)
Architect	Tourtellotte, John E. & Company
MPS	Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR
NRHP reference No.	82000225^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 17, 1982

The Mitchell Hotel in Boise, Idaho, was a 2-story, brick and stone building designed by Tourtellotte & Co. and constructed in 1906. The building featured segmentally arched fenestrations with "denticulated surrounds of header brick." The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1982.^[2]

Considered a modern hotel in 1906, the building included steam heat and plumbing in each of 40 second-floor, "cozily furnished" rooms.^[3]^[4] The first floor contained a restaurant and a barbershop, and later a millinery shop occupied one of the storefronts.^[5] The building also served briefly as a polling place for precinct four in local elections.^[6]

Edward Mitchell was the first proprietor of the hotel, and he sold the building within a year after opening.^[7]

In 1974 Good Medicine Natural Foods opened in the building,^[8] followed by Natural Foods Cafe. The restaurant had closed by September, 1976.^[9] After its listing on the NRHP in 1982, the building was demolished and replaced by a parking lot.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mitchell Hotel". National Park Service. Retrieved February 8, 2019. With accompanying pictures
^ "New Hotel to Be Opened Sunday". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. December 7, 1906. p. 7.
^ "Mitchell Hotel". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. December 30, 1906. p. 5.
^ "The New Millinery Store". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. June 6, 1907. p. 5.
^ "Where You May Vote Today". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. April 2, 1907. p. 3.
^ "The Mitchell Hotel Management Changes". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. September 14, 1907. p. 8.
^ "Special Offer". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. March 25, 1974. p. 3.
^ "Fire Damages Vacant Cafe". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. September 29, 1976. p. 19.