Advocacy

The auditorium at Boise High is threatened!

Dec. 7, 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

February 1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, sending nearly 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans into 10 relocation centers in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming.

June 1942: The Morrison-Knudsen Co. begins building the Minidoka camp. The camp is also called "Hunt," after the nearest post office.

August 1942: The 33,000-acre Minidoka camp opens and will house more than 9,000 internees.

WWII Era Japanese Internment Camp Suffers from Local Development Threats

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.”

Demolition review ordinance

Success stories of previous advocacy efforts by Preservation Idaho.

Historic preservation emphasizes building reuse from a cultural perspective rather than an environmental one. Reusing buildings is natural for sustainable design, but building reuse is rarely emphasized in contemporary green building standards.

Boise High's Auditorium Threatened

Only weeks after completing the demolitions of Cole and Franklin elementary schools, the Boise School District (BSD) will decide the fate of yet another Boise landmark. In the latest of a series of seismic stabilization efforts at sites across the city, the BSD will soon decide how best to retrofit the historic auditorium at Boise High School.

Some Boiseans have mixed feelings about the destruction of Cole, which was built in 1888.

Bethann Stewart, Idaho Statesman

August 12, 2009 - Ami Rumble's husband and two of her kids spent several years at Cole, which they loved, she wrote in an e-mail.

But the economy has hit everyone hard, she said.

Preservationists had hoped at least part of the historic buildings could be saved.

Bethann Stewart, Idaho Statesman

August 11, 2009 - The Boise School Board voted unanimously Monday to tear down two former elementary schools in the hopes of making the properties more attractive to potential buyers.

"The administration feels strongly if we get those properties off, we'll have a better chance of selling (the land)," Boise School District spokesman Dan Hollar said before Monday's meeting.

Big Sky voted down 2-1, case likely headed to court

By Matt Christensen - Times-News
Edition Date: 10/10/07