Pedro Echevarria House

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Pedro Echevarria House
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The Pedro Echevarria House in 2019
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Location5605 State St., Garden City, Idaho
Coordinates 43°39′20″N116°15′29″W / 43.65556°N 116.25806°W / 43.65556; -116.25806 (Pedro Echevarria House) Coordinates: 43°39′20″N116°15′29″W / 43.65556°N 116.25806°W / 43.65556; -116.25806 (Pedro Echevarria House)
Arealess than one acre
Built1920 (1920)
ArchitectTourtellotte & Hummel
Architectural styleBungalow/craftsman
MPS Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR
NRHP reference No. 82000196 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 17, 1982

The Pedro Echevarria House at 5605 W. State Street in Garden City, Idaho, is a brick and wood frame Bungalow designed by Tourtellotte and Hummel and constructed in 1920 for Pedro and Maria Echevarria. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [2]

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In 2018 a developer proposed building 19 small houses on the site, preserving the Pedro Echevarria House as the community center of a cohousing neighborhood, but the City rejected the proposal as "incompatible with the city's comprehensive plan." [3]

Pedro Echevarria

Pedro Echevarria (June 5, 1881-July 22, 1953) was an immigrant from Spain who moved to the Boise area in 1901 and later operated the Big Creek Sheep Co. [4]

Echevarria became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1909. [5]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Pedro Echevarria House". National Park Service . Retrieved January 3, 2019. With accompanying pictures
  3. John Sowell (May 11, 2018). "Update: Garden City Council votes against zone change for proposed cohousing development". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho.
  4. "P. Echevarria, Early Sheep Rancher, Dies". Idaho Statesman. Garden City, Idaho. July 23, 1953. p. 9.
  5. "Naturalizations". Idaho Statesman. Garden City, Idaho. May 25, 1909. p. 5.