924 W. Fort St., Boise, Idaho. County/parish: Ada.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 17, 1982. NRIS 82000222.
Part of Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR (NRIS 64000170).
1 contributing building.
The H.E. McElroy House in Boise, Idaho, USA, was designed by John E. Tourtellotte and constructed in 1901 in a neighborhood now designated the Fort Street Historic District. The brick veneer, 1+1⁄2-story Colonial design features a rectangular, symmetrical facade with a ridgebeam parallel to the street and an entry porch supported by Doric columns above flared, shingled walls. Dormers and gables are covered with square-cut and fish-scale shingles.
Hugh E. McElroy was a Boise attorney who helped to organize Idaho's Progressive Party. McElroy ran for governor as a Progressive candidate in 1914, but he lost the election to Democrat Moses Alexander.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/84247861