Charles and Martha Villeneuve House

The Charles and Martha Villeneuve House, also known as the Herridge House, near Eagle, Idaho, is a ​1 1⁄2-story Queen Anne house constructed of cobblestones from the Boise River in 1881. Ground floor stone walls are 12-14 inches thick, and the upper half story construction is wood frame with front and left side gables. A 1961 addition at the rear of the house is not visible from Moon Valley Road. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[2]

Charles and Martha Villeneuve House
The Charles and Martha Villeneuve House in 2019
Location7575 Moon Valley Rd., Eagle, Idaho
Coordinates43°41′20″N 116°26′51″W
Area0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built1881 (1881)
Architectural styleQueen Anne
NRHP reference No.90001731[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 13, 1990

Charles and Martha Villeneuve

Charles Villeneuve (born 1836, died March 11, 1910) was an 1860 pioneer and mining prospector whose arrival in the Boise Basin predated the designation of Idaho Territory in 1863.[3][4] Villeneuve homesteaded 140 acres in the Boise Valley near Eagle in 1872.[2][5] He married Martha Anderson, an 1876 pioneer, at his home in 1877.[6]

Villeneuve had been a stone cutter, and he may have constructed the Charles and Martha Villeneuve House himself in 1881.[7] He sold the house and property in 1886 to William Eddy, and the Villeneuves moved to Boise City.[2]

Charles Villeneuve later worked as a custodian at the Ada County Courthouse. He also served briefly as the courthouse bailiff.[7] In 1910 he was struck and killed by a trolley on the Boise Interurban Railway.[4]

Martha Villeneuve died in Boise in 1935.[8]

History of ownership

After the house was sold to William Eddy in 1886, it was purchased by A.C. Guyer and A.S. Guyer in 1887. It was owned by Phelps Everett in 1888, and Everett operated a freight station on the property. His son, Elza Everett, owned the house from 1905 until 1909, when he sold it to Ernest and Daisy Pulliam. By that time the property had been reduced from 140 acres to 17 acres. Henry and Grace Eltinge acquired the house in 1917. In 1919 Martin J. Peterson and his son, M. Raymond Peterson, owned the house, and the Petersons added a separate garage and a barn to the property. Glen and Melvina Suiter owned the house from 1961 until 1965, and they are responsible for the rear addition, including a kitchen, a utility room, and a bathroom. Roy and Francis Herridge purchased the house in 1965.[2]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Gary Bowyer; Lou Ann Speulda (June 15, 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Charles and Martha Villeneuve House". National Park Service. Retrieved April 25, 2019. With accompanying pictures
  3. "Pioneers Say Good Bye to Overland". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. June 30, 1904. p. 3.
  4. "Idaho Pioneer Is Victim of Accident". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. March 12, 1910. p. 1.
  5. The NRHP nomination form shows that Joseph Villeneuve filed for a homestead in 1872, and Charles Villeneuve owned the property in 1874.
  6. "Married". Idaho Semi-Weekly World. Idaho City, Idaho. March 16, 1877. p. 3. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
  7. "County Commissioners". Idaho Statesman. Boise, Idaho. April 14, 1895. p. 3.
  8. Fifteenth Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of the State Historical Society of Idaho. Idaho State Historical Society. 1936. p. 145. Retrieved April 25, 2019.

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