Fred Hottes House | |
![]() The Fred Hottes House in 2019 | |
Location | 509 W. Hays St., Boise, Idaho |
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Coordinates | 43°37′09″N116°11′40″W / 43.61917°N 116.19444°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1908 |
Architect | Tourtellotte, John E. & Co. |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
MPS | Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR |
NRHP reference No. | 82000209 [1] |
Added to NRHP | November 17, 1982 |
The Fred Hottes House in Boise, Idaho, is a 2-story, sandstone and shingle Colonial Revival house designed by Tourtellotte & Co. and constructed in 1908. The house features a cross facade porch and a prominent, pedimented front gable. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [2]
German immigrant and Idaho pioneer Fred Hottes (b. July 13, 1840, Darmstadt) [3] [4] was a miner at the Franklin Camp in 1862, [5] and by 1864 he was an early resident of Idaho City. [6] Later that year Hottes was in partnership with John Kennaly in a hardware business in Boise City, although the partnership ended in 1865. [7] In 1893 Hottes was working as a mail messenger for the U.S. Post Office in Mascoutah, Illinois. He and his youngest son, Henry G. Hottes, purchased property in Grand Junction, Colorado, in 1901. [8] Hottes and other members of his family were living in Palisade by 1899. [9] Hottes returned to Boise with his son in 1908, [10] and in that year the Fred Hottes House was designed by Tourtellotte & Co. [11] The 7-room house was constructed at 509 Hays Street and completed in 1909. [12] Henry G. Hottes later occupied a house across the street at 508 Hays. [4] By 1913 Fred and Henry Hottes had returned to Colorado.
After returning to Colorado, Henry Hottes resided at the Henry G. Hottes House, a contributing resource to the North Seventh Street Historic Residential District in Grand Junction. [13]
The eldest son of Fred Hottes, Charles Frederick Hottes (July 8, 1870—April 15, 1966), [14] was a professor of botany at the University of Illinois. [3]
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