Wolters Double Houses

United States historic place


Wolters Double Houses
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The "double houses" in 2018
43°37′14″N 116°11′50″W / 43.62056°N 116.19722°W / 43.62056; -116.19722
Built	1908 1909
Architect	Tourtellotte & Hummel
Architectural style	Bungalow duplex
NRHP reference No.	82000256^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 12, 1982

The Wolters Double Houses are two similar bungalows designed by Tourtellotte & Hummel and constructed in Boise, Idaho, USA, in 1908 and 1909. Both houses were built from a single duplex design. Part of Boise's Fort Street Historic District, the two houses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places November 12, 1982.^[2]

In 1872 President Grant appointed Albert Wolters superintendent of Boise's new assay office,^[3] a position he held until 1883.^[4] Wolters then operated smelting and mining operations near Idaho City until 1905, and he returned to Boise in that year to manage his rental properties, building the bungalow at 712-716 N 8th Street in 1908. He constructed the second "double house" at 712-716 N 8th Street in 1909 and occupied one side of the building as his family residence.^[2]

Original cost of the properties was estimated at $8500 each.^[2]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Wolters Double Houses". National Park Service. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
^ Robert L. Spude. ""Men of Scope": The Assayer and the Western Mining Community, 1848-1920" (PDF). 2013 Mining History Journal. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 20, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
^ Hiram T. French (1914). "History of Idaho". S.J. Clarke Publishing. p. 634. Retrieved September 10, 2018.