The Idaho House
Coordinates: 43°39′08″N 116°11′52″W / 43.652344°N 116.197914°W
The State of Idaho has not had an official governor's residence since 2013.
From 1947 to 1989, Pierce House, located at 1805 N. 21st Street in Boise's North End, served that role. From 2009 until 2013, the former home of billionaire potato and agribusiness magnate J. R. Simplot (1909-2008) and his wife Esther Simplot, served as the Governor of Idaho's official residence, although the house remained unoccupied. During this period it was officially known as Idaho House. Citing upkeep costs, the state returned the house to the Simplot family in 2013. The house was demolished in January 2016, although its iconic flagpole remains.
In 1995, the Idaho Legislature formed a Governor's Housing Committee and Residence Fund "for the purpose of providing a Governor's housing allowance and/or the acquisition, construction, remodel, furnishing, equipping, or maintaining a Governor's residence." In 1999, the Legislature amended Idaho law to allow the Governor's Housing Committee "to accept grants, gifts, or donations related to a governor's residence."
J. R. Simplot, at one time among the 100 richest Americans, bought 2200 acres of undeveloped land in the Boise foothills in 1947 for $5 an acre. In 1979 he built a Mediterranean-style villa on the land, located at 4000 Simplot Lane on the top of a prominent hill in what had become the Highlands neighborhood of North Boise, just above Bogus Basin road. Simplot gave the property to the State of Idaho on December 21, 2004 to serve as a residence for future governors after his own death, on the sole condition that a massive American flag continue to fly above the home. The 38-acre property included a 7,370-square-foot house and a 1,151-square-foot garage. The main level of the home consisted of two bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, a library, a main kitchen and caterer's kitchen, and a board room/dining room, while the upper level consisted of an office, bathroom, entertainment area and great room/formal dining room.
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