Axel Nixon House

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 House
The Axel Nixon House in 2018
Location815 N. Hays St., Boise, Idaho
Coordinates43°37′16″N 116°11′53″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1903 (1903)
ArchitectTourtellotte, John & Company
Architectural styleQueen Anne
MPSTourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR
NRHP reference No.82000230[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 17, 1982

Axel Nixon was chief drafter in the General Land Office at Boise.[4]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Axel Nixon House". National Park Service. Retrieved September 21, 2018. With accompanying pictures
  3. "St John's Food Bank Details Page". Retrieved September 22, 2018.
  4. "Official Register of the United States, vol. I". July 1, 1905. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
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