Adolph Schreiber House | |
Coordinates: | 43.6192°N -116.1953°W |
Built: | 1915 |
Architect: | Tourtellotte & Hummel |
Builder: | O.W. Allen |
Architecture: | Classical Revival, Neo-classical Revival |
Added: | November 17, 1982 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Mpsub: | Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR |
Refnum: | 82000240 |
The Adolph Schreiber House is a 2-story, Neoclassical Revival house in Boise, Idaho designed by Tourtellotte & Hummel and constructed by contractor O.W. Allen in 1915. The design included a 10-room dwelling and a second-story apartment accessed from a side entrance.[1] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1982.[2]
Adolph Schreiber was a funeral director and embalmer in Boise from 1902 until the late 1930s.[3] He was elected Ada County Coroner in 1904 and continued in that office for several years.[4] Schreiber was in partnership with embalmer Edward Brennan, Schreiber & Brennan, from 1904 until 1906,[5] and then he formed a partnership with William Sidenfaden, Schreiber & Sidenfaden, that lasted until 1925.[6] Boise's first ambulance was purchased by Schreiber & Brennen in 1904.[7]