Douglas-Farr Building

The Douglas-Farr Building, at 493 N. Capital Ave. in Idaho Falls, Idaho, was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

Douglas-Farr Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	493 N. Capital Ave., Idaho Falls, Idaho
Coordinates	43°29′38″N 112°02′25″W
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built	1911
Architectural style	Early Commercial
MPS	Idaho Falls Downtown MRA
NRHP reference No.	84001035[1]
Added to NRHP	August 30, 1984

It is a one-story brick Early Commercial-style building. The brick is laid in common bond with a header course every seventh row, and was originally red brick but has been painted a cream color. It has a denticulated cornice formed of brick corbels, above five storefronts.[2]

It was deemed "architecturally significant as the area's only remaining unaltered example of the one-story commercial buildings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century period. Simple, one-story brick commercial buildings were once common as part of the Idaho Falls downtown streetscape. This building is a late example that draws on the Renaissance Revival for its brick corbelling and its segmentally arched windows. Built between 1911 and 1921, the building first housed Anthony F. Douglas* auto repair shop and the Farr Candy Company. Such industrialuses typically were scattered throughout the downtown areas of Idaho towns during their first decades and gradually became more confined to specific areas. CapitalAvenue in Idaho Falls, where the Douglas-Farr Building is located, is one such area. During the 1930s and 1940s, the southern portion of the building was used to publish a regional weekly paper called The Eastern Idaho Farmer. The publisher was Aden Hyde, and his partner was Henry Dworshak, then a U.S. Representative and later a U.S. Senator.[2][3]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. Don Szymansky; Jennifer Eastman Attebery (1984). "Idaho State Historical Society Inventory (Idaho Falls Downtown multiple resource area): Douglas-Farr Building". National Park Service. Retrieved December 15, 2019. With accompanying two photos from 1983
3. Don Szymansky; Jennifer Eastman Attebery (April 25, 1984). "National Register of Historic Places: Idaho Falls Downtown Multiple Resources Assessment" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved December 15, 2019.