Threatened Sites

Across the state of Idaho, individual landmarks, significant landscapes, and historic districts are threatened by neglect, development, inappropriate alterations, and a lack of knowledge about the importance of historic places. Preservation Idaho works to answers these threats through advocacy and education, but we cannot do it alone. If you know of a threatened site, structure, landscape, or landmark with historic, archaeological, or architectural significance, please contact us at info@preservationidaho.org or 208-424-5111. We need your help to protect the places that makes Idaho unique.

Spaulding Ranch

Since 1896, the Almon and Mary Spaulding Ranch has stood near the north end of Cole Road, its historic farmstead surrounded by nearly 20 acres of irrigated pasture. This iconic place on the Boise Bench is now threatened with subdivision and development for tract housing. Read more about the ranch’s history and what you can do to protect it.

Immanuel Methodist Episcopal Church

For the first time in decades, there’s a real chance that this North Boise landmark will be renovated and returned to a productive use for the community. Read about this remarkable building and what you can do to help.

Hurlbut Mansion

A Lewiston Landmark on the Brink

Nestled in a quiet residential neighborhood in Idaho’s first territorial capital, a landmark mansion is slowly slipping away. Read more »

Central Addition

Central Addition, one of Boise’s most interesting and arguably one of its most architecturally significant neighborhoods faces considerable threats to its continued existence. Though passively threatened by ongoing neglect, the most immediate threat is more pressing—demolition for surface parking. Read more »

Fort Boise (Boise Veterans Hospital)

Fort Boise, one of the oldest historic sites in the State of Idaho and the historical reason for the founding of the City of Boise, faces significant challenges as the federal agency to which its care has been entrusted struggles with choices of how to best balance the physical requirements of the historic site with the healthcare needs of veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the VA Medical Center (VAMC), in Boise, is working towards incorporating historic resources into its master growth plan. Without such an effort, the VAMC could incrementally obscure one of the most important National Register-listed historic districts in the western United States. Read more »

Minidoka National Historic Site

Ten weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and amid widespread anti-Japanese hysteria, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, providing the legal basis for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans at ten War Relocation Authority “Relocation Centers.” Read more »

Please contact us if you hear of any buildings that may be threatened.

Email: info@preservationidaho.org

Phone: 208-424-5111

Advocacy

Threatened Sites