O’Farrell Cabin History Early Boise homes were built within the townsite by families with names now better recognized as North End and East End streets: O’Farrell, Logan and Pierce. The O’Farrell cabin, built in 1862, now stands on Fort Street near Lincoln School. The Coston cabin, originally located east of town; and the Pierce cabin…
Month: August 2016
Our North End Politics
Boise’s North End: “The liberal bastion of Idaho” It’s said that all you need is two people to have politics – no matter how much they agree, they will find room for disagreement. Northenders aren’t unique in this regard. Generally it isn’t the issue that they will disagree on but the approach to solving the…
Northend.org Website
The original Northend.org website started taking shape in 2000 and consisted mostly of plain HTML pages linked together into a working website. It was really good by the standards of the day and it got a lot of notice across the country. Very few neighborhoods had their own website, and those that did and who shared our…
Gardening
Gardening has a long tradition in Boise and the North End has long provided some of the best example of residential and urban gardening anywhere. From Xeriscaping to formal gardens, great vegetables and fruit trees to great Spring tulips and some of the best examples of ornamental trees anywhere, the North End has it. We…