Fred Reiger Houses | |
Location | 214 and 216-18 E. Jefferson St., Boise, Idaho |
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Coordinates | 43°37′16″N 116°11′23″W / 43.62111°N 116.18972°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1910 |
Built by | Lemon & Doolittle |
Architect | Tourtellotte, John E. & Company |
Architectural style | Bungalow/craftsman |
MPS | Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR |
NRHP reference No. | 82000235[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 17, 1982 |
The Fred Reiger Houses in Boise, Idaho, are two bungalows designed by Tourtellotte & Hummel and constructed by contractors Lemon & Doolittle in 1910. House A includes an inset, cross facade porch with large, square piers supporting the forward extending roof. The roof extends well beyond the side facing gables and features a long, low dormer above the porch. House B features a cross facade porch with battered piers, a front facing gable, and raked eaves supported by figure four brackets. The houses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[2]
Fred Reiger
Fred J. Reiger, also spelled Rieger, was a resident of Salt Lake City, and he may never have lived in either of the Fred Reiger Houses.[2] He operated a mercantile business with his brother, Erwin A. Rieger, in Salt Lake City until 1902 when Erwin Rieger moved to Ontario and established the Oregon Forwarding Company, later Beckman & Rieger.[3] Fred Rieger remained in Salt Lake City to become a whiskey and cigar distributor, working under the business name of Rieger & Lindley, later Fred J. Rieger & Co. Both the Oregon Forwarding Company and Rieger & Lindley were owned and managed by Friedrich J. Kiesel, a wealthy Utah business owner and politician,[4] and Kiesel may have been a relative of the Riegers.[3]
The Riegers' mother, Marie (Kiesel) Rieger, occupied house B, the smaller of the Fred Reiger Houses.[5] When Fred Rieger died in 1919, his will provided that Marie Rieger receive both houses. Erwin Rieger administered Fred Rieger's estate, valued at over $208,000.[6]
The Fred Reiger Houses were moved in 2018 to allow for expansion of St. Luke's Boise Medical Center.[7]
References
- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fred Reiger Houses". National Park Service. Retrieved April 5, 2019. With accompanying pictures
- 1 2 Marcus Whitman (1902). An Illustrated history of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney counties. Western Historical Publishing Company. p. 574. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
- ↑ Orson F. Whitney (1904). History of Utah. Vol. 4. George Q. Cannon & Sons. p. 629. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
- ↑ "Two New Bungalows". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. June 28, 1910. p. 5.
- ↑ "The Foreign Will of Fred J. Rieger". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. June 11, 1919. p. 3.
- ↑ John Sowell (August 16, 2018). "Old houses on St. Luke's Downtown Boise campus are being moved. Here's what we know". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho.
External links
- Media related to Fred Reiger Houses at Wikimedia Commons
Further reading
- Fred J. Rieger & Co. letter (USU Digital Exhibits)
- Jack Sullivan, Those Pre-Pro Whiskey Men! (Blogspot, August 24, 2014)