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Photograph of Pierce-Borah House
Photograph by Carl Burnett, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Pierce-Borah House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Pierce-Borah House is a historic building just outside of Garden City, Idaho. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the house was among the earliest designed by prominent Idaho architect John E.”

Wikipedia article Pierce-Borah House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 167 National Register listings published here for Ada County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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.
  • Address. W of Garden City off US 26, Garden City, 83714
  • When was it listed? January 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR
  • Census division. Boise City
  • Architect. John E. Tourtellotte
  • National Register reference number. 83000257 - 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.

Fires near this property

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pierce-Borah House between 1995 and 2017, burning about 218 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresBoise DistrictSEAMAN GLC
1 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresBoise DistrictRA6 ADA CO
24 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.4 acresBoise DistrictBIG SPRINGS
21 June 2007Other causes8.0 acresBoise DistrictASSIST 3 BFD

Every fire recorded in Ada County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Pierce-Borah House: 26 past producers, 6 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dry Creek PlacersGoldUnknown
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Aspen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boise Monroc Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Chausee-Swan Gravel CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cole Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Consolidated PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Eagle Island PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
MacMillan Chapel1.7 miles1984
Pierce Park School1.8 miles1982
Almon W. and Dr. Mary E. Spaulding Ranch1.9 miles1994
Ustick School2.1 miles1982
Pedro Echevarria House2.2 miles1982
Collister School3.0 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000257 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ada CountyAll 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.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • 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.