Cyrus Jacobs House

The Cyrus Jacobs House, also known as the Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga House and the Basque Museum and Cultural Center, in Boise, Idaho, is a ​1 1⁄2-story brick house constructed by Charles May in 1864. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[2][3]

Cyrus Jacobs House
Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga House
Basque Museum and Cultural Center
The Cyrus Jacobs House in 2013
Location607 Grove St., Boise, Idaho
Coordinates43°36′49″N 116°12′05″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1864 (1864)
Built byCharles May
NRHP reference No.72000434[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 27, 1972

History

Boise's oldest surviving brick building,[4] the house was occupied by Cyrus and Mary Jacobs from its construction in 1864 until the death of Cyrus Jacobs in 1900. Mary Jacobs continued to live at the house until her death in 1907.[5] In 1878 the house was enlarged to include a dining room and two additional bedrooms.[2]

In 1895 Idaho's future senator William Borah and Mamie McConnell, daughter of Idaho governor William J. McConnell, were married at the house.[2]

In 1910 the site became a lodging house for Basque sheepherders. In 1917 the Uberuaga family rented it, and the family purchased the house in 1928, operating a lodging business at the site until 1969.[6]

Boise's Basque Museum and Cultural Center acquired the house in 1985 and converted it into a headquarters and museum.[7] Basque politician José Antonio Ardanza planted saplings from the fourth Gernikako Arbola, a symbolic oak tree in Boise's sister city, Gernika, at the house in 1988.[8]

In 2012 archaeologists from the University of Idaho excavated a well under the porch at the house and identified between 7000 and 10,000 artifacts dated to the time Cyrus Jacobs lived there, including toys, bottles, English toothpaste, and French shaving cream.[9]

Cyrus Jacobs

Cyrus Y. Jacobs (December 23, 1831--June 28, 1900) was a Boise pioneer who helped to plat the original townsite in 1863.[10] He operated a grain mill and a mercantile establishment, and he sold his own brand of rye whiskey. Jacobs served as mayor of Boise (1879-1880), and he was an early proponent of Boise's streetcar.[11]

gollark: Because a "char" is really a u32, accurately speaking.
gollark: `char` bad, `u8` good.
gollark: Do you *need* that?
gollark: Well, "char" is wrong in C?
gollark: Maybe I should rename ilmenite to apiary.

See also

Basque diaspora

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Arthur Hart (February 24, 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Cyrus Jacobs House". National Park Service. Retrieved February 11, 2019. With accompanying pictures
  3. Arthur Hart (June 17, 2012). "Idaho History: Charles May erected Boise's earliest brick and stone buildings". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho.
  4. Herbert Atienza (June 28, 2004). "Basque house yields secrets". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho.
  5. "Basque Museum & Cultural Center: Cyrus Jacob's Home". Stqry. Archived from the original on February 11, 2019. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
  6. Anna Webb (May 25, 2013). "150 Boise icons: Cyrus Jacobs/ Uberuaga House". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho.
  7. Arthur Hart (January 11, 2019). "Idaho's rich past impossible to examine without recognizing Basque culture". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho.
  8. Anna Webb (April 25, 2013). "150 Boise Icons: Trees of Gernika". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho.
  9. Anna Webb (October 28, 2012). "Archaeological dig reveals early Boise - Archaeologists digging in the Basque Block last summer hit 150-year-old pay dirt". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho.
  10. John Hailey (1910). The History of Idaho. Syms-York Co. p. 311. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
  11. "Cyrus Jacobs Dead". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. June 29, 1900. p. 5.
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