
- Preservation Idaho
- The 14th annual Heritage Homes Tour is set for Sunday, Oct. 2.
Six private homes will be featured in this year's tours and preservationists say the North End neighborhood is the true attraction, with some of the oldest trees in the valley surrounding homes built in multiple architectural styles dating back to the early 1900s.
The tour also feature the historic Marian Pritchett School/Salvation Army Booth Home. While the tour won't include interior access to the buildings, which still serve as a school and day care for scores of young women and their infants, tour participants will be reminded that the Booth Home's days are numbered.
The Salvation Army is selling the property and moving the school and day care operations to another part of town; and even though the Booth Home sits inside the North End Historic District, it is not currently on the National Register of Historic Places. Officials with Preservation Idaho say the "future of this property may be in jeopardy" because future owners may wish to demolish the historic buildings in order to build newer homes on the land parcel.

- Preservation Idaho
- The 14th annual Heritage Homes Tour is set for Sunday, Oct. 2.
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