R.H. and Jessie Bell House

Built in 1922 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The R.H. and Jessie Bell House in Meridian, Idaho, is a Craftsman Bungalow designed by John Krulish and constructed in 1922. A lateral ridgebeam runs parallel to Pine Street and extends the roof beyond gabled dormer windows at left and right.”
Wikipedia article R. H. and Jessie Bell House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 167 National Register listings published here for Ada County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1922, American Craftsman.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Bell, R.H. and Jessie, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 137 E. Pine St., Meridian, 83642
When was it listed? February 2006
Category. building
Census division. Boise City
When was it built? 1922
Architectural style. American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 05001599 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of R.H. and Jessie Bell House: 24 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ada Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ada Sand and Gravel Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Allen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Aspen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Black Cat Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Black Cat Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Black Cat Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ada County

Storms near this property

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meridian, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	4 hurt	no account filed
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	-	A few rotten trees were knocked down south of Meridian.
September 2013	Hail	Meridian	-	Spotters in Meridian and eagle reported large hail up to an inch and a half across the area.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Meridian	-	A National Weather Service employee reported road flooding near Ustick and Locust Grove with a depth of up to one foot in some places.
March 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	-	A NWS storm survey estimated a 60 to 65 MPH wind gust destroyed an announcers booth at the Meridian Lions Club rodeo grounds. In addition, four sets of unsecured grandstand bleachers were flipped upside down and rolled over a fence into the middle of the rodeo grounds.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	-	Several reports of downed trees and fences and damage to homes were received from local media.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	-	KTVB reported wind damage near Rocky Mountain High School in Meridian and around the Kuna area. Hail was covering the ground in the affected areas.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	-	Thunderstorm winds caused power outages to 6000 customers in Meridian, Boise and Eagle.
June 1995	Hail	Meridian	-	In Meridian, a thunderstorm produced one inch hail and 15 minutes later produced one and one-half inch hailstones.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	-	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Meridian	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ada County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Meridian Exchange Bank	under 500 feet	1982
Tolleth House	under 500 feet	1996
E. F. Hunt House	0.1 miles	1982
Halbert F. and Grace Neal House	0.2 miles	1982
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company Building	0.2 miles	2008
Clara Hill House	0.2 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001599 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ada County	All 167 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.