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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28PR_the-basque-center_Boise-ID.html
A place to call out the name of an old friend, play the card game "mus," sit down to a meal, or dance to the music of the accordion and the txistu, the melodic Basque flute. All communities need somewhere to meet, and this is one place t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28PP_the-chico-club_Boise-ID.html
"One of the fine new buildings in Boise," heralded the Idaho Statesman newspaper in 1935, when the Belaustegui Hotel & Basque Boarding House was constructed by Augustin and Petra Belaustegui. A few years later, part of the hotel became …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28PO_grove-street-warehouse_Boise-ID.html
Imagine leafy Lombary poplars, dazzling rose bushes, lush gardens, circular walks, stately homes, and huge churning waterwheels along a wide avenue, and you'll get a picture of early days on Grove Street. The profusion of leaves and petals was cat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28PN_tom-and-julia-davis-homesite_Boise-ID.html
On this very site stood the home of Boise pioneers Tom and Julia Davis.
In 1889, the Davis family built this fashionable Victorian home on a section of their homestead extending from Front Street to the Boise River. This handsome two-story wood…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28PA_heath-building_Boise-ID.html
The thread of several cultures, wrapped around a mystery, winds its way through this site. Originally, a log cabin stood here, occupied in the early 1860s by a Boise sheriff. Later, a house was built on the site and deeded by the mayor to Dr. Peff…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28P9_basque-museum-and-cultural-center_Boise-ID.html
Far from their homeland, the temperate, verdant. Euskadi, away from their lively communal life of feast days and dancing, of pelota games and good wind, Basques in Idaho found themselves in an arid land where few spoke the native tongue. Many work…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28P8_laiak_Boise-ID.html
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For centuries, Basques have used the "laiak" to prepare the earth for planting. This photo, from the early 1900s, shows Basque women poised for work.
From its stone base to its seven flying ribbons, the sculpture embraces Basques …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28P7_bar-gernika_Boise-ID.html
The clinking of glasses, the clang of silverware, good conversation and enjoyable times have long been a part of this corner. Food and drink are especially important to the Basques, drawing people together in this highly social culture. Constructe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28P5_anduiza-hotel-and-fronton_Boise-ID.html
The play was intense and furious: men smacking a leather-covered ball with their hands, or whipping their paddles, or palas, through the air. The sport, pelota, was brought to Idaho by early Basque immigrants. Juan and Juana Anduiza constructed th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28P4_anduiza-hotel-and-fronton_Boise-ID.html
This unique building was built for Juan Cruz Anduiza in 1912 as a boarding house for Basque sheepherders who wintered in Boise. The rooms were across the front and down the side of the building and the kitchen, dining room, etc. wee in the basemen…