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Chinese Odd Fellows Building

Coordinates: 43°36′49″N 116°12′7″W / 43.61361°N 116.20194°W / 43.61361; -116.20194
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Chinese Odd Fellows Building
The Chinese Odd Fellows Building at 610-612 Front St. (foreground)
Chinese Odd Fellows Building is located in Idaho
Chinese Odd Fellows Building
Chinese Odd Fellows Building
Chinese Odd Fellows Building is located in the United States
Chinese Odd Fellows Building
Chinese Odd Fellows Building
Location610-612 Front St., Boise, Idaho
Coordinates43°36′49″N 116°12′7″W / 43.61361°N 116.20194°W / 43.61361; -116.20194
Arealess than one acre
Built1911
ArchitectTourtellotte & Hummel; Clifton & Corbridge
MPSTourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR
NRHP reference No.82000187[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 17, 1982

The Chinese Odd Fellows Building is a two-story, thirty-by-sixty foot, privately owned brick commercial building in the historical Chinatown of Boise, Idaho. It is located on West Front Street between South Capital Boulevard and South 6th Street near the Basque Block. The building features a corbel table of projecting bricks with stepped segments.

Built in 1911, it was a Odd Fellows fraternal building, and is one of the few surviving buildings associated with the Chinese immigrant community in downtown Boise. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1] It served historically as a clubhouse and as a business with shops on the first floor, and a lodge hall and sleeping rooms on the second floor.

The building was one of many designed or built by the Tourtellotte and Hummel architectural firm of Boise that were covered in a 1982 study.[2] Contractors Clifton and Corbridge erected the structure in the winter of 1911-1912 for the contract price of $4,648.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Patricia Wright (September 22, 1982). "Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture Thematic Resources". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. ^ Idaho State Historical Society. Inventory Sheet for Group Nomination: Chinese Odd Fellows Building, uploaded 2018. https://history.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Chinese_Odd_Fellows_Building_82000187.pdf
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