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Item Title
Idaho World Building, Main & Commercial Streets, Idaho City, Boise County, ID
LocationMain & Commercial Streets,
Idaho City, ID
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS ID-9
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-8).
Building/structure dates:
1867 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1920 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1947 subsequent work
Significance: Built of local half-baked brick, the building is one of a half dozen early "bricks" that still stand in Idaho City. "The Idaho World" published here for three decades in the 19th century. / Founded as the "Boise News" in September of 1863, the "Idaho World" published its first edition on October 20, 1864. The first newspaper in the Idaho Territory, the "Idaho World" was housed in no less than five locations when, in 1886, the office moved to its longest place of residence on the northeast corner of Main and Commercial. The "Idaho World" was a fiercely Democratic paper. C.E. Jones as publisher and editor in may, 1886 when it moved into this "Brick," circa 1867. The "Idaho World" building had been a tin shop and a warehouse. It was owned by a Chinaman just before the Joneses bought it, and was known as the "Man Wo Corner." The "Idaho World" ceased publishing in 1918. The building housed a bar called "The Lounge" in the 1950's. The present "Idaho World," reactivated about ten years ago, now publishes out of a converted blacksmith shop one block south.
Subjects
Offices
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. Duane Garrett, Photographer 1976 WEST (FRONT) ELEVATION, FROM SOUTHWEST
2. Duane Garrett, Photographer 1976 EAST (REAR) ELEVATION, FROM NORTHEAST
3. Duane Garrett, Photographer 1976 ORIGINAL IRON SHUTTERS
4. Duane Garrett, Photographer 1976 VIEW OF PRINTING PRESS ROOM IN REAR OF BUILDING
5. Duane Garrett, Photographer 1976 INTERIOR BRICK DETAIL, SOUTH WALL
6. Photocopy of old photo shows a general view of the building before 1918, when Idaho World occupied it. Note north extension and bricked openings on the south elevation. Original photograph at Boise Basin Museum, Idaho City, Idaho
7. Photocopy, of old photo shows another general view of the building, with people posing for the picture, taken late 19th or early 20th century. Original photograph at Boise Basin Museum, Idaho City, Idaho.
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