Whitney Elementary School (demolished) – Boise ID

City:
Boise, ID

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding

Designers:
Tourtellotte & Hummel, Wayland & Fennell

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

Whitney Elementary was a PWA project (docket #1084R). It was demolished in 2009 and the current Whitney elementary was built in a different location on the same parcel. The original structure was designed by Wayland and Fennell Architects, and subsequent additions by Tourtellotte & Hummel Architects.

Source notes

Preservation Idaho

Preservation Idaho Flickr album

Google Earth Pro historical satellite imagery

National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, 1982, Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture in Idaho, (https://history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/Tourtellotte_and_Hummel_Architecture_in_Idaho_Thematic_Resource_64000170.pdf), accessed November 2, 2017.

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on October 29, 2016.

Location Info


1609 S Owyhee St
Boise, ID 83705
Ada County

Location notes: Marker indicates location of former school

Coordinates: 43.589339, -116.224139

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