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A t o u r i n g , c o m m i t t e e h e a d e d
b y M r s . D o n S a m u e l s o n a n d e n -
t i t l e d " I d a h o H e r i t a g e o n
W h e e l s " h a s s c h e d u l e d i t s f i r s t
t o u r ' s t o p i n M c C a l l J u n e 1 0 t o
d i s p l a y s o m e r e c e n t l y a c q u i r e d
a n d m a n y o l d e r h i s t o r i c a l p o s - T h e t o u r i s u n d e r t h e a u s p i c e s
s e s s i o n s o f t h e G o v e r n o r ' s M a n - o f t h e G o v e r n o r ' s H o u s e H e r i -
s i o n . t a g e C o m m i t t e e a n d t h e S t a t e
M r s . S a m u e l s o n s a i d a t a n H i s t o r i c a l A u x i l i a r y . M e m b e r s
I d a h o p r e s s c l u b l u n c h e o n T u e s - o f t h e c o m m i t t e e a r e t h e M m e s .
d a y t h e p u r p o s e o f t h e n e w l y D o n S a m u e l s o n , G e o r g e K e y s e r ,
f o r m e d t o u r c o m m i t t e e i s t o d i s - B e t t y P e n s o n , S a m A r d s , R i c h -
p l a y p e r m a n e n t p o s s e s s i o n s o f a n d S i m p l o t a n d J o h n L u n d y .
t h e G o v e r n o r ' s H o u s e t h r o u g h - E f f o r t s t o p r o v i d e a n o f f i c i a l
o u t t h e s t a t e i n v a r i o u s t o w n s s o t a b l e s e r v i c e h a v e r e s u l t e d i n
t h a t i n t e r e s t e d m e n a n d w o m e n t h e r e c e n t p u r c h a s e o f 2 6 t h r e e -
c a n c o n v e n i e n t l y s e e a n d l e a r n p i e c e p l a c e s e t t i n g s o f c r y s t a l ,
a b o u t t h e m . 2 6 f i v e - p l a c e s e t t i n g s o f c h i n a
p l u s a c c e s s o r y p i e c e s , a n d a
f e w p l a c e s e t t i n g s o f s i l v e r ,
w h i c h w i l l b e p a r t o f t h e t o u r
d i s p l a y .
j A l s o i n c l u d e d i n t h e d i s p l a y
w i l l b e a p h o t o g r a p h i c m o n t a g e
T h e t o u r w i l l b e e i n a
s t a t i o n w a g o n w i t h a b a n n e r
d i s p l a y i n g t h e n a m e " I d a h o
H e r i t a g e o n W h e e l s , " a n d w i l l
b e s c h e d u l e d t h r o u g h o u t t h e
s u m m e r .
c o m p o s e d o f t h e p i c t u r e s o f t h e
w i v e s o f I d a h o ' s 2 2 g o v e r n o r s i n
a n a n t i q u e f r a m e m o u n t e d o n
r e d - g o l d v e l v e t r e c e n t l y c o m -
p l e t e d , b o o k s , t a b l e l i n e n a n d
o t h e r c o n t r i b u t i o n s .
T h e i n t e r i o r o f G o v e r n o r ' s
H o u s e h a s a l s o r e c e i v e d i m -
p r o v e m e n t i n c l u d i n g r e d e c o r a -
t i o n o f t h e l i v i n g a n d d i n i n g
r o o m s , a n d t h e r e f u r b i s h m e n t
a n d p u r c h a s e o f f u r n i t u r e ,
t h r o u g h o u t , a c c o r d i n g t o M r s .
S a m u e l s o n .
I n d i s c l o s i n g t h e g r e a t n e e d
f o r a c t i o n o n t h e l a c k o f e n t e r -
t a i n m e n t f a c i l i t i e s o f t h e h o u s e ,
M r s . S a m u e l s o n s u g g e s t e d f u r -
t h e r p l a c e s f o r i m p r o v e m e n t , a s
w e l l a s v i t a l c o n s i d e r a t i o n s f o r
a r c h i t e c t u r a l p l a n s o f a n e w
m a n s i o n w h i c h m i g h t b e b u i l t i n
t h e n e a r f u t u r e .
" I d a h o h a s g o t t o f a c e u p t o
t h e f a c t t h a t t h i s h o m e i s n o t
a d e q u a t e , " s a i d M r s . S a m u e l -
s o n .
T h e G o v e r n o r ' s H o u s e
a v a i l a b l e t o v a r i o u s g r o u p s
o r g a n i z a t i o n s f o r t e a s a n d
i l a r o r g a n i z a t i o n a l o r m e
s h i p f u n c t i o n s w i t h a d v a n c e
r a n g e m e n t s , a c c o r d i n g t o
f i r s t l a d y .
F i n d i n g i t h a r d t o c a l l
p r e s e n t s t r u c t u r e a m a n
i s
a n d
s i m -
m b e r -
a r -
t h e
t h e
s i o n ,
s h e s a i d " I t h i n k a n e w r e s i -
d e n c e s h o u l d h a v e a s t a t e l i v i n g
r o o m , a s t a t e d i n i n g r o o m , a n d
a l a r g e k i t c h e n t o g o w i t h t h e m .
I t s h o u l d a l s o h a v e s p a c e f o r a
s m a l l e r f a m i l y - t y p e a p a r t -
m e n t . "
T w o g u e s t r o o m s , f o u r o r f i v e
g o o d s i z e d b e d r o o m s , a n d a n o f -
f i c e f o r t h e f i r s t l a d y w e r e a l s o
i n c l u d e d i n t h e l i s t .
W i t h t h e a i d o f t h e I d a h o L i -
b r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n , s h e i s a l s o
a d d i n g a s e l e c t i o n o f I d a h o h i s -
t o r i c a l b o o k s a n d b o o k s w r i t t e n
b y I d a h o a u t h o r s t o t h e r e s i -
d e n c e l i b r a r y .
T h o s e w h o h a v e b e e n h e l p i n g
w i t h t h e H e r i t a g e c o m m i t t e e
p r o g r a m a r e M r s . I r e n e K a n t a ,
C a l d w e l l , M r s . A g n e s B e t t i s ,
M r s . A l e n e G u e r n s e y , M r s .
P e g g y B u n t i n g , M r s . A n n E r -
s t a d , M r s . G o r d o n B o y l e , o f
I d a h o F a l l s , a n d M r s . J o h n G l a s -
b y o f M o u n t a i n H o m e .
T h e c h i n a p a t t e r n i s T u x e d o
b y L e n o x , w h i c h w a s c h o s e n t h e
m o s t c o m p l i m e n t a r y t o t h e
I d a h o S e a l w h i c h w i l l a l s o b e
i n c o r p o r a t e d r o n t h e s e r v i c e .
T h e c r y p f A 1 i s L e n o x B e l l m o n t
a n d t h e s i l v e r p a t t e r n i s R e e d
a n d B a r t o n ' s B u r g u n d y .
O t h e r p r o j e c t s w h i c h a r e
b e i n g w o r k e d o n b y t h e H e r i -
t a g e c o m m i t t e e a r e a n e e d l e -
p o i n t c o v e r f o r t h e p i a n o b e n c h ,
a n d m o n o g r a m m e d s h e e t s a n d
p i l l o w c a s e s f o r t h e g u e s t r o o m .
M r s . S a m u e l s o n s a i d t h a t
h o u s e h o l d i t e m s c o n t r i b u t e d
w h i c h h a v e b e e n i n I d a h o f a m i -
l i e s f o r m a n y y e a r s w i l l b e
" g r a t e f u l l y c o n s i d e r e d , n o t a s
m u s e u m p i e c e s i n q u a n t i t y b u t
a s i n d i v i d u a l p i e c e s w h i c h
w o u l d e n h a n c e t h e g r a c i o u s n e s s
o f t h e r e s i d e n c e . "
M c C a l I H e a r s
H e r i t a g e T a l k
B y F i r s t L a d y
B y M A R J O R I E C O C H R A N E
S t a t e s m a n C o r r e s p o n d e n t
M c C A L L O r b i t s a n d w h e e l s
m a d e s o c i e t y h e a d l i n e s , b u t
p a r t i c i p a n t s d i d n ' t l e a v e t o w n .
P a y e t t e L a k e s P r o g r e s s i v e c l u b
m e m b e r s a n d t h e i r g u e s t s
l u n c h e d a t S h o r e L o d g e T u e s -
d a y t o c o n c l u d e t h e i r s e a s o n a l
m e e t i n g s , h e a r d M r s . D o n
S a m u e l s o n o u t l i n e t h e " H e r i -
t a g e o n W h e e l s " p r o g r a m .
M c C a l l B . P . W . m e m b e r s w e r e
h o s t s t o p r o f e s s s i o n a l w o m e n
t h r o u g h o u t t h e s t a t e a t t h e i r a n -
n u a l c o n v e n t i o n a t t h e L o d g e
w h i c h e n d e d S u n d a y . " O r b i t f o r
P r o g r e s s " w a s t h e t h e m e , a n d '
r o c k e t s d e c o r a t e d t a b l e s a n e
p r o g r a m s f o r t h e f o u r - d a y m e e t -
i n g . M r s . C l i f f A n d e r s o a ,
M c C a l l , w a s c o n v e n t i o n c h a i r -
m a n :
M r s . S a m u e l s o n t o l d o f t h e
w o r k o f I d a h o w o m e n i n h e l p i n g
t o f u r n i s h t h e g o v e r n o r ' s m a n -
s i o n w i t h o f f i c i a l c h i n a a n d s i l -
v e r . S h e d i s p l a y e d a p l a c e - s e t -
t i n g b e a r i n g t h e s t a t e s e a l a n d
o t h e r f u r n i s h i n g s d o n a t e d f o r u s e
i n s t a t e f u n c t i o n s . P o n d e r o s a
p i n e s e e d l i n g s m a r k e d l u n c h e o n
p l a c e s a n d G i r l S c o u t l e a d e r s
w e r e s p e c i a l g u e s t s a t t h e a n -
n u a l . a f f a i r .
-. THVRSDA'Y`, APRIL 30, 1970
Mrs,. Samuelson
to mee with
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Cascade lees �.
"Heritage On Wheels" will
be the topic of tbe.t-;Mternoon
when Mrs. Ruby Samuelson
meets today with area ladies
in Cascade.
Mrs. Samuelson will display
pictures of the wives of Ida-
ho's 22 governors and will
show the official state silver-
ware, crystal, and dinnerware
which will be a permanent
part of the Governor's house.
These have been contributed
by various clubs and organiza-
tions through the State Histor-
ical Auxiliary and the Govern-
or's House Heritage Commit-
tee. President of the Historical
Auxiliary is Mrs, Dale Stil-
well.
All ladies are d to the
luncheon whichsduled
to start at 11:30 a.m. at the
Masonic Lodge in Cascade to-
day (Thursday).
Idaho's First Lady tells Cascade gro up of "Heritage on Wheels"
About 75 women attended
the "Idaho's First Lady's Lun
cheon" held last week in Cas ,1'I
cade and heard Mrs. Ruby ,
Samuelson tell of her work
•.vrith the "Heritage on Wheels"
project.
During the past yVr the
State Historical Aux of
Boise has completed a collec-
tion of the pictures of 22 Ida-
ho First Ladies which have
been placed in a gold antique
gilt frame with velvet. This
montage war displayed and
M --s. Samuelson said it will re-
m -i• as a permanent part of
ti-e Governor's house.
Also displayed were items
collected by the Governor's
H o u s e Heritage Committee
during the past year and a
half These includethe official
state china, crystal, silverware,
candlelabras, a silver punch
bovrl and table linen, which
have been contributed by or-
ganizations throughout the
Gem State. Mrs. Samuelson
stated that inany books have
also been COO"— Wted as a start
toward setti a library for
the governor'"§ house.
Accompanying Mrs. Samuel-
son were Mrs. Dale Stilwell,
president of the State Histori-
cal Auxiliary and Mrs. Rich-
ard Simplot, first vice presi-
dent of the Auxiliary. Mrs.
Stilwell spoke briefly of the
organization's functions and
presented a recently printed
book on Idaho's First Ladies.
Mrs. Simplot told the group
about an Idaho cookbook
which is in the planning stage.
The Idaho theme was carried
out with a bouquet of syringa
and bluebirds, blue and gold
streamers on the tables, and
an Idaho and American flag
behind the head table. A ladies
trio, Virginia Patton, Nancy
Payne, and Naomi Aman sang
"This State is Your State" and
Mrs. Patton led the group in
the state song "Here We have
Idaho."
The Cascade ladies present-
ed Mrs. Samuelson with $50 to
assist with the Heritage Com-
mittee project.
Mrs. Samuelson said her
Cascade visit was the eleventh
one since the project was start-
ed and would be the last this
year.
FOLLOWING HER explanation of the "Heritage on Wheels" project at the luncheon held in Cas-
cade last week, Mrs. Ruby Samuelson autographed the "First Ladies of Idaho" booklets.
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Courtesy of Idaho Heritage Trust
Buildings preserved for the future include the 1911 -1912 New Meadows Train Depot, a two -story bracketed Italianate structure.
aymg Idaho's P ast
Heritage
Trust racks
up 10 years
of historic
preservation
By Marianne Flagg
The Idaho Statesman
For the past 10 years, the
Idaho Heritage Trust has used
money from license plate fees
to quietly plug away at pre-
serving Idaho history one
brick and plank of wood at a
time.
The non -profit trust — Ida-
ho's only chartered organiza-
tion for historic preservation —
has restored the marquee of
Sandpoint's 1927 movie the-
ater, Panida, and repaired and
e Old Ida-
Courtesy of Idaho Hertage Trust
The Gulley Bridge, at Celebration Park on the Snake River in Canyon County, is Idaho's
largest historical artifact. Constructed in 1897, it was used to help haul gold and silver. The
trust gave money to restore the bridge's approach.
'enitennary in Boise.
has conserved the papers
nventor Arthur Troutner
fixed a fence and monu-
its in Carey's Pioneer
ietery.
s a new century begins, the
t can point to 190 grants to-
Ig $1.2 million given to pre -
,e Idaho's historic build-
, collections and artifacts.
his year, it will make a ma-
,ffort to complete renova-
of the Silver City School -
se in Owyhee County.
is really diverse," Heritage
st Executive Director
tha Pace, Bellevue, said of
ects. "You realize the di-
ity of historic structures in
10.11
1e public profile of the trust
d grow as attention on the
millennium makes many
Idahoans wistful about the
past.
"Increasingly as we enter
this next century, people are
going to care more about what
has gone before," said Alan
Minskoff, Boise, a member of
the Heritage Trust's board of
trustees. "Because Idaho is
young, it's easy to say there is
nothing worth saving, when in
Fact Idaho has lots to preserve."
The trust's work has drawn
national attention. In October,
true National Trust for Historic
Preservation bestowed a Na-
ional Preservation Honor
Award on the trust.
Most of the trust's grants are
'or up to $10,000 for specific
work, such as fixing founda-
ions and windows, painting or
)opying photographs.
"It's extremely important,"
aid Patty Miller, executive di-
eector of the Basque Museum
� Cultural Center, a recipient
)f two trust grants. "Grants for
crick and mortar work are
sometimes harder to come by
han program grants. It's
)laces like the Idaho Heritage
Crust that are saving so many
>f these historic things for our
Mate. History is important."
Occasionally, the projects
tarry an air of glamour as well
is hard work.
The trust awarded $255,000
,o mirchase the land where
„wrc nd Clark camped at
3lad, k during their trek
)ver L.oio I iw near the Idaho-
font, -r.r border.
Courtesy of Idaho Heritage Trust
'he next big project for the
rust is renovation of the 1892
>ilver City Schoolhouse. The
rust plans to spend about
1125,000 to fix the foundation
Ind make other improve-
ments.
Trust projects
The list of buildings and ar-
tifacts the Idaho Heritage
Trust has helped preserve
ranges from churches and
schools to papers and Ameri-
can Indian artifacts. Here are
a few of the proiects:
1104100
Cataldo Mission, east of
Coeur d'Alene — Old Mis-
sion State Park has received
the trust's Glenn Janss
Award for Excellence for its
efforts to preserve this Greek
Revival -style church de-
signed by a Jesuit priest and
built by Coeur d'Alene Indi-
ans.
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Italian settlement school,
near Priest River — The roof
and chimney were replaced
on the school for immigrants
who came to the area be-
tween 1890 and 1920.
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Lewiston Civic Theatre —
Workers repaired stained
glass in the theater, built in
1907 as a church.
• • •
Rock art — A grant made
it possible to photograph and
document fading rock art
along the Snake River
Canyon. The art is thought to
be between 5,000 and 9,000
years old.
St. Paul Baptist Church,
Boise — A grant in 1997 was
used to help renovate the ex-
terior of the church, histori-
cally significant as one of
three Idaho churches with a
predominantly black congre-
gation.
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Best - selling historian Stephen Am-
brose attended the ceremony marking
the purchase. Preservation of the site
as a park was well-timed in advance
of the Corps of Discovery bicentenni-
al, set to begin in 2003.
In another project important to Ida-
ho's past, a $125,000 trust grant
bought the town site of Chesterfield.
The Mormon pioneer town in the up-
per Portneuf Rrim4 Valley near
Pocatello vM9 Tid ed irl''ttia et*
1880s.
Volunteers have flocked to the site
to help.
"In one weekend alone, 400 people
volunteered to work in it," Smith said.
"As the years go on, the people of Ida-
ho will treasure Chesterfield as a
glimpse of Idaho's pioneer life."
Whether large or small, most
grants shore up Idaho's history
against the juggernaut of time.
Grants to the Basque Museum &
Cultural Center have helped maintain
the Cyrus Jacob- Uberuaga House,
607 Grove St. Repairs included work
on windows and masonry and halting
water damage.
"Unless we are good stewards of it,
we will lose the house," Miller said.
"It's old, and we need to constantly
work on it. It is a treasure for the
whole community."
Cyrus Jacobs built the house in
1864, a year after Boise was founded.
Jacobs was a pioneer merchant and
leader in the community. The house is
the oldest surviving brick building in
Boise.
Log Cabin Literary Center In the early 1900s, the Uberuagas, a
— Also a winner of the Janss Basque family, acquired the house.
award, the center received The Idaho Centennial Foundation
grants to restore wood finish- established the trust as a lasting lega-
es. cy project of the state's 1990 Centenm-
`°The Lewis and Clark camp is one al. The Legislature that year passed
(grant) that probably will have a sig- legislation to charter the organization
nificant impact on the people of Idaho to preserve the state's historical and
forever," said Paul Smith, of Twin archaeological legacy.
Falls, chairman of the Idaho Heritage The trust is funded through license
Trust. "We helped create a state park. plate fees. It receives 50 cents from the
The money was used to purchase the
site, which had never been logged. It,
was one of the few sites that was com-
pletely
pletely in the same (condition) whe
Lewis and Clark came through."
§ale of each plate. the money is held
in trust, and earnings are dispersed in
grants. The trust has about $4 million
in assets, which are expected to grow
to more than $6 million in the next two
years.
Pace said trustees ensure that work
is supported in all areas of the state.
The trust divides Idaho into seven
regions. A committee of trustees and
others from each region weighs the
grant proposals.
"We invite people involved in his-
toric preservation on the committee,"
Minskoff said. "They take the first
look. People ask for a certain amount
of money, and you try to fund as much
as you can."
Buildings and other projects receiv-
ing grants generally are 50 years old,
or older.
But recent history is an area of con-
cern, because few people are paying
attention to saving artifacts.
"We are in danger of losing things
from the '60s and '70s," Pace said.
Likely projects in the future include
preservation of more schoolhouses
such as the one in Silver City.
"We'd like to see if we can create a
curriculum to be taught by electronic
media that would emphasize the im-
portance of preservation," Smith said.
Also, the trust could turn its atten-
tion to buildings of organizations that
are running out of members, such as
masonic halls in small towns.
"Many of these buildings are filled
with artifacts that need to be trans-
ferred," Smith said.
Whatever the direction of projects,
Minskoff said, the trust is vital to the
state's culture.
I hope that the trust continues to do
what it has done best, to be there first
and to be primarily an agent for
preservation and historic conscience
and doing for Idaho history what no
one else does."
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Contact Marianne at 377 -6429 or
mflagg@boise.gannett.com.
Idaho Statesman file P
The trust helped make repairs to the Cyrus Jacobs- Uberuaga House on Grove Street. It is the oldest existing
brick building in Boise.