Aiken's Hotel
a.k.a. Eagle Hotel
99 E. State St., Eagle, IDThe Aiken's Hotel is representative of the development of a small commercial center to serve the rural settlement of Eagle during the period 1902 to 1910. During those eight years Eagle's main street, which is also a highway connecting Boise with other valley centers, gained a grocery store, an Odd Fellows' Building, the Eagle Drug, the Alken's Hotel, and a few other businesses. The hotel is as
with the major developer-promoter of Eagle, Tom Alken, who had the building constructed. The hotel is architecturally significant as a representative of early concrete block construction in the Boise Valley, a type of construction that became popular in about 1900. According to one source, the blocks were manufactured in Eagle. The classical elements of the porch (as originally built) and the denticulated cornice are also representative of the colonial revival style popular during the first decade of the century. Parts of the rear ell date from 1909 to 1914 and parts from 1914 to 1923; they should be considered additions of significance. The alterations to the front porch do not belong to the period within which the hotel achieved significance, but they do leave half of the main facade and the remaining three exposures entirely visible.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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