Reprinted from the Idaho Statesman, May 8, 2010
By Bethann Stewart
Preservation Idaho leaders say they did not want to publicly confront the Boise School District for the second year in a row.
But months after they dinged the district with the smellier of their annual Orchids and Onions Awards for destroying South Junior High, built in 1948 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the district made two more decisions that sparked even more outrage.
For the cavalier treatment of historic landmarks in their care which resulted in the unnecessary demolition of Cole and Franklin Schools and the unsophisticated addition to and renovation of other school buildings in Boise
For the demolition of the historic Kendrick Depot and the unwilllingness of the City to allow its preservation by a group of committed citizens (see our Orchid for the Juliaetta-Kendrick Heritage Foundation).
