Ustick School

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Location2971 Mumbarto St., Boise, Idaho
Coordinates 43°37′54″N116°19′21″W / 43.63167°N 116.32250°W / 43.63167; -116.32250 (Ustick School) Coordinates: 43°37′54″N116°19′21″W / 43.63167°N 116.32250°W / 43.63167; -116.32250 (Ustick School)
Arealess than one acre
Built1909 (1909)
Architectural styleColonial Revival
NRHP reference No. 82000250 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 29, 1982

Ustick School in Boise, Idaho, is a 2-story, 4-room Colonial Revival schoolhouse constructed in 1909 in the former town of Ustick. The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1982. [2]

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History

In 1907 Dr. Harlan P. Ustick platted the farming community of Ustick on his property, six miles west of Boise. [3] The Ustick post office was established in 1908 and closed in 1958. [4]

Dr. Ustick helped to organize the Boise Valley Railroad, later the Boise Interurban Railway, a trolley line that included a station at Ustick, and Dr. Ustick briefly served as president of the company. [5] [6]

The Ustick School District, also known as District #37, was formed in 1909 from parts of other districts, [7] and in that year the Ustick community approved construction of Ustick School by a vote of 72 to 3. [8] By 1910 the schoolhouse was considered "one of the best new school buildings in the county." [9]

A gymnasium was added to the building after 1911, and it was demolished after 1967 and before the school's listing on the NRHP in 1982. [2] The school was closed in the mid 1950s, but the gymnasium was in use as a cannery for Allen's Custom Cannery of Fruitland in the 1960s. [10] The cannery continued to operate at the school in the 1970s. [11]

By 1999 Ustick School had been converted into a house, [12] and by 2008 the building had been divided for apartments. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Jennifer Eastman Attebery (September 20, 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ustick School". National Park Service . Retrieved April 15, 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) With accompanying pictures
  3. ↑ "Ustick: A Community on the Brink of Place" (PDF). Boise, Idaho: Ada County Council. Retrieved April 15, 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  4. ↑ Lalia Boone (1988). Idaho Place Names. University of Idaho Press. p. 385.
  5. ↑ Arthur Hart (May 26, 2018). "In Idaho's early 1900s, linking Boise-area cities by rail was much celebrated". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho.
  6. ↑ "Dr. H.P. Ustick Suddenly Dies". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. September 28, 1917. p. 2.
  7. ↑ "New School District". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. April 21, 1909. p. 5.
  8. ↑ "Bond Election at Ustick". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. May 8, 1909. p. 7.
  9. ↑ "Meridian Local Happenings". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. May 27, 1910. p. 3.
  10. ↑ "The Canning Business (photo)". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. August 15, 1967. p. 15.
  11. ↑ Sandra Watkinson (May 30, 1975). "Basics School Group Drafts 4 New Plans". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. p. 34.
  12. ↑ Liz Wyatt (September 30, 1999). "Neighbors, students redesign Ustick site". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. p. 1B.
  13. ↑ Anna Webb (March 29, 2008). "Nominate your favorite Ada 'treasures' - Designation documents historic structures in an ever-changing county". Idaho Statesman.

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