Allsup, Marion, House
1601 N. 10th, Boise, IDThe Allsup cottage is architecturally significant as the only surviving example that we have located of the firm's work at the extremely modest scale of the one-story "classical cottage": a diminutive, squarish, one-story house with a pyramidal or slightly ridge hip roof. Plans for the Allsup cottage do not survive in the office of the successor firm. Surviving plans for a very similar cottage for Gustave Goeldner make plausible the attribution of this modest house to Tourtellotte and Company. Approached--and not matched--for modesty only by the Abbs house among all the residential structures of this Group, the Allsup cottage is an excellent illustration of the unpretentious end of the range of jobs that might be taken on by practitioners of practical art in a provincial setting. Marion Allsup, whose five-room cottage was reported by John Tourtellotte at the end of 1900 at a cost of $500, was a plasterer and cement worker by trade.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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