W of Garden City off US 26, Garden City, Idaho. County/parish: Ada.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 03, 1983. NRIS 83000257.
Part of Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR (NRIS 64000170).
1 contributing building.
The Pierce–Borah House is a historic building just outside of Garden City, Idaho. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the house was among the earliest designed by prominent Idaho architect John E. Tourtellotte. It was completed in 1897 and originally located at 11th and Franklin Streets, in nearby Boise.
The house was commissioned by Boise entrepreneur Walter E. Pierce but was sold in 1898 to William Borah, later a prominent United States Senator. Pierce had sold another of his houses to Borah in 1893. In 1959, the house was purchased by Vernon K. Smith and moved from its original location to the present site, in what was then a rural area west of Garden City.
Although the house was described as being in "excellent condition" in a 1982 report, it appears to have since fallen into disrepair.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/84247843