Anton Goreczky House | |
![]() The Anton Goreczky House in 2019 | |
Location | 1601 N. Seventh St., Boise, Idaho |
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Coordinates | 43°37′43″N116°11′48″W / 43.62858°N 116.19665°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1898 |
Architectural style | Queen Anne |
NRHP reference No. | 86000438 [1] |
Added to NRHP | March 20, 1986 |
The Anton Goreczky House in Boise, Idaho, is a 1+1⁄2-story, Queen Anne house constructed in 1898. The house features a wraparound porch with elaborate brackets, arches, and spandrels. [2]
Anton and Mary Goreczky lived at the Goreczky house from 1898 until Anton Goreczky's death in 1934. Goreczky was a journeyman carpenter and owner of the Boise Sash and Door Factory. [3]
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The South Eighth Street Historic District in Boise, Idaho, is an area of approximately 8 acres (3.2 ha) that includes 22 commercial buildings generally constructed between 1902 and 1915. The buildings are of brick, many with stone cornices and rounded arches, and are between one and four stories in height. The area had been Boise's warehouse district, and many of the buildings were constructed adjacent to railroad tracks that separated downtown from its industrial core. The district is bounded by Broad and Fulton Streets and 8th and 9th Streets.
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The W. E. Jefferson House in Boise, Idaho, is a 1+1⁄2-story Queen Anne, Shingle style cottage designed by Tourtellotte & Co. and constructed in 1907 in Boise's Hyde Park neighborhood. The house features front, right, and left gabled dormers and a cross-facade porch supported by square coffered posts. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1982.
The Willis Mickle House in Boise, Idaho, is a 1+1⁄2-story Queen Anne cottage designed by Tourtellotte & Co. and constructed in 1898. The house features a prominent, left front facing gable with dormer that rises above a right front porch. The first floor outer walls are of random course Boise sandstone. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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The W.A. Simpson House in Boise, Idaho, is a 2-story Bungalow designed by Tourtellotte & Co. and constructed in 1909. Sandstone veneer covers first floor outer walls, and the second floor is veneered in stucco. The house shows a Tudor Revival influence with half-timber decorations above the sandstone. An attic dormer faces the 10th Street exposure, and the roof depends on a single, lateral ridgebeam. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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