Axel Nixon House

United States historic place


Axel Nixon House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The Axel Nixon House in 2018
43°37′16″N 116°11′53″W / 43.62111°N 116.19806°W / 43.62111; -116.19806 (Axel Nixon House)
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

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