H. E. McElroy House | |
Location: | 924 W. Fort St., Boise, Idaho |
Coordinates: | 43.6231°N -116.1986°W |
Built: | 1901 |
Architect: | John E. Tourtellotte & Company |
Architecture: | Colonial Revival |
Added: | November 17, 1982 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Mpsub: | Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR |
Refnum: | 82000222 |
The H.E. McElroy House in Boise, Idaho, USA, was designed by John E. Tourtellotte and constructed in 1901 in a neighborhood now designated the Fort Street Historic District. The brick veneer, -story Colonial design features a rectangular, symmetrical facade with a ridgebeam parallel to the street and an entry porch supported by Doric columns above flared, shingled walls. Dormers and gables are covered with square-cut and fish-scale shingles.[1]
Hugh E. McElroy was a Boise attorney who helped to organize Idaho's Progressive Party.[2] McElroy ran for governor as a Progressive candidate in 1914, but he lost the election to Democrat Moses Alexander.[3]