Brunzell House
916 Franklin St., Boise, IDThe Brunzell House is architecturally significant as another of the colonial cottages that are colonial only in its wrapper. Encased in this wrapper is a basic bungaloid plan. As with the Schmelzel cottage (site 44), the masonry surface, offset porch, and elaborated flat roof, and tented bay de-emphasize the simplicity of the essentially rectangular plan. However, the tighter profile produced by the brick surface and the simpler surface and the simpler support system of the porch contributes to a less Victorian or picturesque aspect than the Schmelzel example.
The Brunzell House may be another case of a cottage built by parents for an offspring. The drawings for the cottage are labeled J. M. Brunzell; the newspaper report names Fred Brunzell, and the city directory shows him there, but with no occupation specified, in 1912. The reported cost of the cottage in 1909 was $3,000.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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