Brunzell House
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Brunzell House | |
.jpg) The Brunzell House in 2019 | |
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| Location | 916 Franklin St., Boise, Idaho |
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| Coordinates | 43°37′16″N 116°12′00″W / 43.62111°N 116.20000°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1908 |
| Architect | Tourtellotte, John E. & Company |
| Architectural style | Bungalow/craftsman |
| MPS | Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 82000182[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 17, 1982 |
The Brunzell House in Boise, Idaho, is a one-and-a-half-story, brick and wood Bungalow designed by Tourtellotte & Co. and constructed in 1908. The house features Colonial Revival decorations, including deeply flared eaves. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[2] It also is a contributing resource in the Fort Street Historic District.
The Brunzell House was commissioned by John M. Brunzell,[2] a Nampa resident and former postmaster and state representative from Reynolds Creek in Owyhee County.[3][4] Brunzell never occupied the house, and he may have intended it either as a rental or as a gift to his nephew, Fred Brunzell, who owned lot 3, block 84, where the house was constructed.[5][6]
Fred Brunzell purchased property for the house in 1892.[7] He and Oline Brunzell lived at the house from about 1912 until her death in 1918,[8] but they were not the original residents.
In 1908 Victoria L. Eoff rented the newly constructed house.[9] She and her late husband, Alfred Eoff, had been owners of the Eoff-Brady House, designed by John E. Tourtellotte and constructed in 1897. In 1911 Mrs. Eoff moved into the newly constructed Victoria Louise Eoff House, designed by Tourtellotte & Hummel. Both Eoff houses are contributing resources in Boise's West Warm Springs Historic District.[10][11]
In 1919 Fred Brunzell transferred the house to his children, Selma B. Getchell and Alvin O. Brunzell.[12] Getchell later sold her share of the house to her brother in 1919.[13] Fred Brunzell died in 1920 at the age of 86.[14]
