Axel Nixon House
Axel Nixon House  | |
![]() The Axel Nixon House in 2018  | |
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| Location | 815 N. Hays St., Boise, Idaho | 
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| Coordinates | 43°37′16″N 116°11′53″W / 43.62111°N 116.19806°W | 
| Area | less than one acre | 
| Built | 1903 | 
| Architect | Tourtellotte, John & Company | 
| Architectural style | Queen Anne | 
| MPS | Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR | 
| NRHP reference No. | 82000230[1] | 
| Added to NRHP | November 17, 1982 | 
The Axel Nixon House is a Queen Anne style cottage in the Fort Street Historic District in Boise, Idaho, USA. The house was designed by Tourtellotte & Co. and constructed in 1903. Features include a roof with flared eaves, flared dormers, and a small porch with Tuscan columns supported by low, flared walls below a decorative sunburst patterned gable.[2] The house has been altered since construction and now serves the community as home to St. John's Food Bank.[3]
Axel Nixon was chief drafter in the United States General Land Office at Boise.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
 - ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Axel Nixon House". National Park Service. Retrieved September 21, 2018. With accompanying pictures
 - ^ "St John's Food Bank Details Page". Retrieved September 22, 2018.
 - ^ "Official Register of the United States, vol. I". July 1, 1905. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
 
External links
 Media related to Axel Nixon House at Wikimedia Commons


