Axel Nixon House

Axel Nixon House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Axel Nixon House in 2018
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Location	815 N. Hays St., Boise, Idaho
Coordinates	43°37′16″N 116°11′53″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1903 (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]

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.

External links

• Media related to Axel Nixon House at Wikimedia Commons