Orson Grimmett Bungalow

Orson Grimmett Bungalow
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	28 W. 2nd, North, Paris, Idaho
Coordinates	42°13′54″N 111°24′5″W
Area	less than one acre
Built by	Grimmett, Orson
Architectural style	Bungalow/craftsman
MPS	Paris MRA
NRHP reference No.	83000263
Added to NRHP	April 13, 1983

The Orson Grimmett Bungalow was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The house was deemed "locally significant for its association with a prominent local builder whose work is still visible in Paris and surrounding towns. Grimmett also owned and operated the Star Confectionery, a 1920's soda fountain. His house at Twenty-eight West Second North, which he built himself, is a strikingly unpretentious, simple plan. The standard bungalow shape is only slightly embellished with purlins and brackets, and the shallow bays and dormers do little to deny the building's boxy massing. Like the Paris LDS Seminary that Grimmett built during this period, the Grimmett bungalow belies a conservative, formulaic, and classicizing bent in LDS architecture, which may be traced from the nineteenth century folk architecture through the twentieth century forms. The Grimmett bungalow is architecturally significant as an owner-built expression of this Mormon esthetic."

See also

• John Grimmett Jr. House, also NRHP-listed