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Location 2nd St. and 15th Ave., S., Nampa, Idaho
Coordinates 43°34′34″N116°33′25″W / 43.57611°N 116.55694°W / 43.57611; -116.55694 Coordinates: 43°34′34″N116°33′25″W / 43.57611°N 116.55694°W / 43.57611; -116.55694
Area less than one acre
Built 1918
Architect Tourtellotte & Hummel
Architectural style Late Gothic Revival
MPS Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR
NRHP reference # 82000330 [1]
Added to NRHP November 17, 1982

Nampa Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 2nd Street and 15th Avenue, South in Nampa, Idaho. It was built in 1918 and was added to the National Register in 1982. [1]

Nampa, Idaho City in Idaho, United States

Nampa is the largest city of Canyon County, Idaho. The population of Nampa was 81,557 at the 2010 census and, as of 2018, is the third-most populous city in Idaho. Nampa is about 20 miles (32 km) west of Boise along Interstate 84, and six miles (10 km) west of Meridian. Nampa is the second principal city of the Boise-Nampa metropolitan area. The name "Nampa" may have come from a Shoshoni word meaning either moccasin or footprint.

It was designed by architects Tourtellotte & Hummel. Its NRHP nomination states:

Tourtellotte & Hummel was an American architectural firm from Boise, Idaho and Portland, Oregon.

The Nampa Presbyterian Church is architecturally significant as a handsome and unaltered Gothic church design of the later 1910s, which suggests in the increased verticality of its parapeted gables the renewed picturesque impulse that seems to have been emerging at this time (see also site 95). The church is also significant as one of the fairly numerous Nampa commissions by this firm, one which contributes welcome texture and style in a town whose streetscapes are consierably eroded. Finally, it stands as an example of the progressive building campaigns whereby small-town churches often accommodated growing congregations with limited resources. [2]

It was listed on the National Register as part of a study of historic properties designed by Tourtellotte & Hummel. [2] [3]

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