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Archie Teater Studio

Built in 1952. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Archie Teater Studio, also known as Teater's Knoll, is a Usonian-style home and art studio in Bliss, Idaho, United States. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and commissioned in 1952 for American landscape and genre artist Archie Boyd Teater, it was completed in 1957.”

Wikipedia article Archie Teater Studio, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Gooding County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1952, by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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. Teater, Archie, Studio - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. SE of Bliss, Bliss, 83314
  • When was it listed? September 1984
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Bliss
  • When was it built? 1952
  • Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
  • National Register reference number. 84001132 - 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Archie Teater Studio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,502 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution64 acresTwin Falls DistrictWINDMILL
9 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictOLD BB
24 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictBLISSGRADE
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresBoise DistrictTUANA GLCH
1 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined746 acresTwin Falls DistrictPIONEER
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictRURAL ASSIST 4
9 August 2008Natural1,982 acresTwin Falls DistrictBLISS
5 August 2013Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictBLISS POINT 2

Every fire recorded in Gooding County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Archie Teater Studio: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Uranium, Clay. 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
Hagerman Valley Clay PitClayPast Producer
Lucky Lolo Uranium ProspectUraniumProspect
Boulder Hill PlacerGoldPast Producer
Snake River PlacersGoldPast Producer1862
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smith S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Snake River Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Pit Gd 58Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gooding County

Storms near this property

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bliss, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 wildfire. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1997WildfireBliss-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gooding 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

2 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
Hagerman State Bank, Limited4.5 miles1989
Morris Roberts Store4.8 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84001132 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gooding CountyAll 13 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.
  • 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.