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611 West Grove Street Boise, Idaho: ... The Basque Museum and Cultural Center is an institution in Boise, Idaho focused on Basque culture and history. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Basque immigrants began arriving in Idaho in the late 1800s.
Idaho's ethnic Basque community is one of the largest in the United States, on the order of nearly 7,000 people in 2000, many of whom live in Boise. [91] A large Basque festival known as Jaialdi is held once every five years (next in 2025). Downtown Boise features a vibrant section known as the "Basque Block". Boise's former mayor, David H ...
The Anduiza Hotel [2] is a historic hotel located in Boise, Idaho, United States. [3] The hotel was constructed in 1914 to serve as a boarding house for Basque sheepherders. [4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 2003. It was built by and/or for Basque immigrant Juan "Jack" Anduiza. [5]
Cyrus Y. Jacobs (December 23, 1831—June 28, 1900) was a Boise pioneer who helped to plat the original townsite in 1863. [10] He operated a grain mill and a mercantile establishment, and he sold his own brand of rye whiskey. Jacobs served as mayor of Boise (1879-1880), and he was an early proponent of Boise's streetcar. [11]
The Pedro Anchustegui Pelota Court is a Basque pelota court located on West 2nd North Street in Mountain Home, Idaho. The court was built in 1908 during a period of Basque immigration to Idaho. Basque immigrants largely settled in the Boise and Mountain Home regions, where they herded sheep; Basque pelota, a sport similar to handball , was one ...
The ever-changing downtown Boise dining destination recently unveiled two new vendors — with a third on deck. Basquenese has opened serving Basque and Vietnamese cuisine. It’s the brick-and ...
The Chinese Odd Fellows Building is a two-story, thirty-by-sixty foot, privately owned brick commercial building in the historical Chinatown of Boise, Idaho. It is located on West Front Street between South Capital Boulevard and South 6th Street near the Basque Block. The building features a corbel table of projecting bricks with stepped segments.